Hi,
I recently enabled the Spell Check, GeanyLua and Pretty Printer plugins in the plugin nightly builds for the GTK 2.8 compatibility test. They weren't built previously because of unmet dependencies (enchant, lua and libxml2) but I just installed those and so the mentioned plugins are not built as well. And GeanyVC is now built with GtkSpell support enabled. So in theory, we are able to catch even more possible errors :).
Another change was that I wrote a small tool [1] which tries to load the plugins very similar as Geany would do (it's actually based on the code in Geany). Inspired by the recent discussion on the Geany mailing list where a user had problems loading the Spell Check plugin because of unresolved symbols in the plugin (which was due a bug in the code which was already fixed in the meantime), I thought about discovering such issues during the nightly builds. Since plugins are just shared libraries, we don't get normal linker errors as we would get for Geany itself. Instead, such errors occur first when trying to load the plugin into Geany when the linked symbols are actually resolved (or tried to resolve :D). So, I finally came to the clue that we could 'emulate' loading a plugin by dlopen() it, read some of the required symbols and just check whether it works. As said, the small tool tries to be as similar to what Geany does as possible. It's already included in the nightly build scripts, so we will get notices in case any plugin would fail. The good thing is, currently all built plugins pass the tests, yay.
Both changes won't bring a real benefit for users but helps detecting problems in compatibility a bit earlier.
As usual, the current status information about the nightly builds can be found on http://nightly.geany.org. And since today, the site is also availale via geany.nightlybuilds.org, thanks to Dominic Hopf :).
[1] http://geany.svn.sf.net/viewvc/geany/trunk/scripts/plugin_test.c?revision=45...
Regards, Enrico
P.S.: sorry for the long and boring story but maybe someone finds it as interesting as me :).