On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:03:37 +1100, Lex wrote:
Hi,
decoupling plugins and Geany you reduce maintenance since things don't
I don't see any strict coupling you are talking about. Except the above mentioned release policy but this isn't that strict.
But it is effectively forced because any change to the ABI prevents plugins from working, so they have to be updated. And an ABI change might only be a bugfix. Requiring the whole ABI stability is a pretty onerous requirement.
Just to make sure, an ABI version bump doesn't necessarily require plugins' code to be updated, only the binary, i.e. they simply need to be recompiled.
Regards, Enrico