[Geany-devel] deprecating pluginmacros.h (Re: Generating an API functions wrapper)

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:56:04 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:35:39 +0000
>Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to add this to SVN, maybe somehow deprecating
>> pluginmacros.h, but not removing it for a while. In future,
>> genapi.py could add the geanyfunctions-> prefix and we could remove
>> pluginmacros.h.
>
>I've added geanyfunctions.h to SVN, but I think we could make
>pluginmacros.h deprecated now, with a few small changes:
>
>* Move the geany macro to plugindata.h.
>* Add accessor functions for documents_array and filetypes_array.
>
>Then geanyfunctions.h could use the full geany_functions->p_prefix->
>syntax, which would require that pluginmacros.h is not included.
>
>I think updating plugins to use geanyfunctions.h would be pretty
>straightforward; for most plugins probably just changing the header
>include and a regex replace of function pointer syntax. Anyway I'll add
>an announcement when the new geanyfunctions.h code is completely ready
>for use.

Cool, sounds like a plan.


Regards,
Enrico

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