On Jan 5, 2008 1:41 PM, Frank Lanitz linux@partysoke.de wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:10:04 +0100 Frank Lanitz linux@partysoke.de also wrote:
But if there will be a big number of Lua plugins or maybe in future some written in Python I could imagine to have some kind of plugin manager allowing downloading of plugins from a central server. But not for plugins written in C.
I have to revert myself a bit. I could imagine to build up something, that works like a frontend to wget, configure and make: Downloading a src-tarball from central server, extracting it and run the triple to install it. Well... to be honest: I'm not sure and should be better quiet ;D
I think, Frank, that in your previous post you hit the nail on the head. Users, in general, will probably not want to write their Geany plug-ins in C. And plug-ins written in a HLL like Lua are easily distributed among different platforms.
So, if the Lua plug-in came standard with Geany, it would probably be good for Geany to provide some central archive of Lua plug-ins. But, at this point (without having the Lua plug-in in the core), if users are writing plug-ins in Lua, maybe they could let Jeff know -- and if the number of them hits some critical mass, Jeff might even start his own archive. ;)
---John