2006/7/20, Alexandre Moreira <alexandream@gmail.com>:
Oh, I forgot a few things too:
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 19:45 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:51:11 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira"
> <
alexandream@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it is so cool, that you all want to extend Geany, but please give us a
> little bit time to make it ready for this.
>
> > scripts in, say, Python or TCL (or even C plugins).
> I prefer Python(because so many people like it, there must be
> something magic with it) _and_ C plugins.
>
> But as mentioned earlier, this whole stuff is not really important at
> the moment, at least not for me and Nick.
> I want to finish the 0.8 release soon(but without hurrying), then
> reduce the length of the todo list and finally implement project
> management. Then getting it stable, so that 1.0 can be released.
>
> After that, or while getting 1.0 stable, we should think about a
> reasonable plugin concept.
>
> I really like the idea of plugins, but at the moment it is too early
> for it.
Thanks for the answers and responses. I'm looking forward to test the
project management functionality.
Personally i think you guys should consider including the mentioned
plug-in system with 1.0 release (after everything else on the TODO list
is done) so it is a basic part of Geany.
I would vote against this. Geany already has a release plan, and I think we should stick to it. First of all, it was not the interest of the main devs to make it a complex system, at least not on
1.0. Second, it would be needed a *LOT* of hooks in the system for it to be acessible for plugins, and it is not the kind of re-engeneering I think we need while on 0.8, at least not when focusing to 1.0.
Also consider D-Bus as a
plug-ins interface as this allows more languages to be used to write
plug-ins with (any language that D-Bus got bindings for).
I never considered this as an option and then, when you mentioned it a whole lot of possibilities exploded in my mind. Thanks very much, Nexu, for you made me address a lot of stuff I had in mind for my own personal project (A game server).
I ended up thanking Nexu for something but forgot to discuss the meaning of this idea in Geany context. Don't think D-Bus would be a good way for Geany to implement it, at least not as long as it strives to be multi-platform. For all I know D-Bus is still very much binded to the Linux platform (but, please, correct me if I am wrong).
And here I am again (sorry, if I were less anxious to answer I would post a single message). I found out that DBus has implementations in FreeBSD/NetBSD/MacOSx/Windows, although I don't know the state of them all, so I was speaking nonsense in the last e-mail.
But again, I really believe we should drop this kind of discussion until we get on planning the plugin system (and that would be post 1.0, probably one major version after it).
Regards,
Alexandre Moreira