[Geany-devel] geany-plugins depends on GIO

[Lex Trotman]

On 17 November 2010 03:11, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:13:03 +0100
> Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>
>> Le 16/11/2010 09:23, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
>> >
>> > Well, agreed. In most cases it should work fine with compiled in
>> > version number as most cases the API/ABI is changing with some
>> > major release. But of course this will go into trouble with minor
>> > releases as we had them with 0.19.1 or if anybody is remembering
>> > the 10.x ones :)
>> >
>> > Well, however. I think a simple function which returns the version
>> > string into plugin API would be enought or am I wrong? something
>> > that is just doing a return GEANY_VERSION;
>> I think it is better to return major, minor and micro version (or
>> something that fits the versionning scheme) as plain integers.
>> The advantage is that it becomes easy to use this version for any
>> check, where a string is quite tedious to use.
>>   geany_get_version(gint *major, gint *minor, gint *micro)
>> for example, or 3 variables, not sure.
>
> Well, even it looks a bit dirty in my eyes (maybe we can put this into a
> struct) it would solve users from use the parsing over and over again
> as I did inside updatechecker with
> static void parse_version_string(const gchar *ver, gint *major, gint
> *minor, gint *micro, gchar **extra)
>
> So I'm pro ;)


Just a question, shouldn't plugins be checking the ABI version was
what they conpiled with not the Geany version?

Cheers
Lex

>
> Cheers,
> FRank
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