[Geany-devel] geany-plugins depends on GIO

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:03:37 +1100, Lex wrote:

Hi,

>>>decoupling plugins and Geany you reduce maintenance since things
>>>don't
>>
>> I don't see any strict coupling you are talking about. Except the
>> above mentioned release policy but this isn't that strict.
>
>But it is effectively forced because any change to the ABI prevents
>plugins from working, so they have to be updated.  And an ABI change
>might only be a bugfix.  Requiring the whole ABI stability is a pretty
>onerous requirement.

Just to make sure, an ABI version bump doesn't necessarily require
plugins' code to be updated, only the binary, i.e. they simply need to
be recompiled.



Regards,
Enrico

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