It seems a bad idea to apply a hacky patch to Geany where it affects all users, especially just before a release.
The problem I see is, that it will always be seen as a hacky patch if only some people who tryout the scope plugin manually apply the patch to their private versions/installations of geany and no one else. Possible side effects will not be found this way I guess.
What do you think about the following: - for 1.33 disable scope as suggested by @elextr - after geany 1.33 and geany-plugins 1.33 have been released, apply the workaround patch in geany master (if @b4n agrees) - I could take maintenance of the scope plugin. I can't promise much improvements because I am also working on other plugins and projects but I used it a bit from time to time and like it more than the debugger plugin
That way the patch would at least be tested by all developers in every day use. If we find any side-effects we can study them and decide to fix them or to remove the patch.