On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:14:07 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
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
Lua is high-level programming level and C not? At least some years ago C was also a high-level programming language ;-). SCNR.
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. ;)
It would be cool to have something like the mentioned "plugin manager" which downloads, build(if necessary) and install various plugins by one click and without any further user interaction. I'm not against something like this. But I think this could (and should) be done itself as a plugin and I won't work on this.
Regards, Enrico