[Geany-devel] ANN: Configurable Build Menu Alpha in SVN

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:45:16 +1000, Lex wrote:

>2009/7/21 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:
>>>>TODO List (Major items only)
>>>>
>>>>I don't know what the impact on plugins is yet, I tried to build the
>>>
>>> Any problems will quickly show up once the code is in trunk.
>>>
>>
>> Plugins won't build, filetype.h now uses build.h which isn't
>> installed to /usr/local/include/geany/
>>
>> I'm AC_illiterate, where do I put build.h to get it installed, is it
>> geany_include_HEADERS in src/Makefile.am ?

Exactly.
And for Waf, it's in wscript around line 451.


>> Or alternatively I could make the requirement go away since now the
>> GeanyFiletype structure only has pointers to GeanyBuildCommand, so it
>> doesn't actually need the definition.
>>
>> Which is preferable from your point of view??
>>
>
>Update, making the requirement go away allows geany-plugins combined
>release to build & seems to workl!!!
>
>So now the question is should plugins be able to access the build
>menu.  I would think that there could be uses for it and would be
>happy to add two functions to build.h
>
>gchar *get_build_cmd_field( GeanyBuildGroup group, gint cmdindex,
>GeanyBuildCmdEntries field);
>void set_build_cmd_field( GeanyBuildGroup group, gint cmdindex,
>GeanyBuildCmdEntries field, const gchar *value );
>
>that are documented for use by plugins. and allow build_menu_update to
>be used by plugins unless there is another way of triggering it.
>
>Then we need to install build.h

Yo. I guess we would add it at some point anyway and so we can also add
it now. I think someone might want to write a plugin which
uses/extends/whatever the new build system code in some way.


Regards,
Enrico

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