[Geany-devel] Lua Script: Removing stale MRU entries form Geany's config file

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Thu Jul 29 03:20:26 UTC 2010


On 29 July 2010 12:48, Guenther Brunthaler <gb_about_gnu at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Lex,
>
> On 2010-07-29 04:36, Lex Trotman wrote:
>
>> I presume you've found the Geany Lua plugin then :-)
>
> Actually, I had no idea - but thanks for the hint! I'll install it asap! :-)
>
>> The problem with scripts is that they are not portable (Geany runs on
>> *x and *dows) or they create a dependency, in your case on Lua.
>
> Lua also runs ob *x, *doze or any other platform providing a plain
> ANSI-C compiler, because its source code deliberately does not use any
> features outside of those guaranteed by the ANSI-C standard libraries.
>
> But I get your argument, and I agree. It *is* an additional dependency.
>
>> but could probably be put on the extras section of Geany web site for
>> people who are willing to install Lua.
>
> That's all I had hoped for!
>
>> Thats up to the main developers who maintain the web site.
>
> I would feel honored.
>

I better warn you that it might take a while, the developers are a bit
overloaded with "real" life at the moment.

Cheers
Lex

> Greetings,
>
> Guenther
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