On 06/08/2013 03:02 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:54:38 -0700
Roger Booth <rbooth@kabooth.com> wrote:


One thing I could ask for is a reference in the docs to where I can
find the correspondence between api and abi. Maybe thats the wrong
question, but anyway, how do i know which abi version I need? This is
in regards to PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK(xxx)

A lot of functions have a note at Geany's API documentation, since
which version of Geany they are avaialble. E.g. Since: 0.16 at
utils_str_casecmp().
At http://wiki.geany.org/plugins/development/api-versions you can find
also the connection between API and ABI as well as the corresponding
Geany version.

Cheers, 
Frank



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I guess what I was asking for was a note in the docs that talk about writing plugins, and especially in the docs about PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK() that points to where the programmer can read up on the connection between api and abi. Or at least how the programmer can find out the number.

Its great that you tell me here, and I know that somewhere in my mail history I have the info as well, but wouldn't it be better to put the info at the location where it helps the the programmer that is about to add a PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK() to a plugin? That was an issue for me, and adding the references to the location where I was looking would have helped me.

But beyond that, let me understand. What I do when writing a plugin is I keep track of the least value of x.yy in "Since: x.yy" for every function I use from the Geany API. Then I look at the URL you listed to find x.yy and cross reference it to an abi number. And that abi number is the number I plug in to the PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK() macro. Is that how this works? If that is so, again, maybe it would be nice to document the manual procedure programmers should follow.

Your initial post in this thread asked

    Is there something that describes how to go about adding a plugin to geany-plugins?

It sounded to me like you wanted to know about issues folks had writing plugins. Well, I'm listing issues I have had writing Geany plugins.