[Geany-devel] [ANNOUNCE] gproject - yet another geany project plugin

[Lex Trotman]

On 10 June 2010 16:53, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:54:46 +1000
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >> Sigh, this isn't your fault, but I have problems with installing
>> >> unknown software to system directories and plugins autofools is broken
>> >> WRT installing to a non-standard prefix, waf build works if your
>> >> plugin had a wscript.
>> >>
>> >
>> > And I dislike using non-standard solutions (as standard I consider
>> > autotools, despite all its drawbacks), so we have a nice deadlock here
>> > :-).
>>
>> Your prerogative, but it means that I won't test your plugin.
>
> I have a great solution to break this deadlock. How about putting the plugin
> into the geany-plugins combined project, and allowing us to collaboratively
> maintain both the waf and autotools build systems?
>
> As it is currently, Enrico does most of the work maintaining the waf build
> system, and I, autotools.
>
> Putting your plugin into the combined geany-plugins project will also mean that
> your plugin will then have synchronized releases with Geany, and get packaged
> into major distributions easier as well. A win all round, don't you think? :-)
>

Yes, I'd encourage Jiri to do that when his plugin is mature enough,
even he notes problems that won't be fixed by the plugins release for
0.19.

Cheers
Lex

> --
> Kind regards,
> Chow Loong Jin
>
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