On 23 July 2014 21:19, Rajib Bandopadhyay bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com wrote:
[Attn: Lex Trotman - Some additions]
On 23/07/2014, Rajib Bandopadhyay bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com wrote: Dear Lex, Please peruse the following links and then the attached snapshots: A. http://www.geany.org/Support/Plugins ... The Geany-Plugins project The Geany-Plugins project is a combined release for each matching Geany release, starting with version 0.17. It includes a huge number of plugins for different purposes. Please have a look at http://plugins.geany.org/ for more information. ...
B. http://plugins.geany.org/install.html ... Install Geany-Plugins There are different ways to get the Geany-Plugins project onto your system. The easiest is to ask the package manager software of the distribution you are using. ...
This approach has led me to a complicated situation. Instead of focussing on the task at hand I am now trying to get Geany fixed.
That advice is normally correct, it is usually best to use the package provided by your distribution. It is unfortunate if your distribution has provided a bad package, but the Geany project has no control over that.
I again draw your attention to Geany's USP, "...Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries..."
So how come Geany gets to depend on so many packages and breaks them(snapshots)? ;)
The statement you quoted above is correct, Geany only needs the GTK runtimes to run. There is no way Geany can break packages, but your distribution can accidentally provide bad packages at times. That is a concern you need to raise with the distribution to get answers, we cannnot help you with that, we do not make the packages.
I hope you would weigh the points I have raised.
And your email does not address my other issue: "There must be a system of specific configuration where the developers test their codes."
Developers test on a number of different systems, with differing configurations, there is no specific configuration used.
What is the specific system you all use? Let me know and I will set up the same system to minimise fuss.
But first of all, I would compile the software from the source code and try to solve the issues. Let's see how this goes :)
Ok, note that to compile the software you will likely need development tools and development versions of GTK, not just the runtimes.
Cheers Lex
Regards
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