On 2/25/07, Bo Lorentsen bl@lue.dk wrote:
Enrico Tröger wrote:
To use projects ;-). Seriously, some of the main features will be project related session restoring and project related build options. But we are at a very ealier stage, so please be patient.
Ok, that makes sense ...
Well, I'm not sure at the moment. But the whole plugin interface has to be designed and this won't be done in the near future. Sorry.
Ok, but I just think that if the plugin or scripting structure are in place early in the development of geany, people could start to hack scripts that fast and easy make the core geany application do what they which it to do.
Some of these scripts may end up in some Geany buildin functions (convertet to c) or global scripts, or they my just be local scripts making a developer happy :-)
Scripts could control project, editor, compilation and even debugging, and the core IDE could still remain quite small, clean and fast loading.
I don't say: no scripting! But at the moment there are no plans ;-).
Ok, sounds good ...
I rarely contribute (actually most like never) to this project this days but, as I have some sort of experience with plug-ins and script systems, I believe I could help this.
One of the best ways to have a scripting engine inside a plug-in-enabled software would be (IMHO, of course) the X-Chat approach, that is: to have the plug-in system powerful enough to accommodate the script engine on top of it, so that the scripts would be just as powerful as any plug-in and take the burden off the main developers.
As a great side effect, the user that does not intend to use a certain script engine could just don't load the plug-in that provides it, and multiple independent developers can develop engines that make it possible for users to load plug-ins in different languages.
I believe it is an all win situation, just would take long to get the whole plug-in architecture done before we (as in you, lol) can have any script support.
Just my two cents, feel free to ignore if you don't agree :)
Regards, Alexandre Moreira.
PS: Unfortunately I couldn't get Geany to fulfill some very specific needs of mine (I have just been using Vim for too long) and I am not a user anymore, but I simply love the way and speed that it is being developed and watch the mail list and try to test a new release version every now and then.
If this bothers anyone (most importantly, Nick and Enrico) please tell me and I'll refrain from posting "out of the community" point of view messages :) I'm just trying to help the way I can.
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