[Geany-devel] Keybindings for GeanyPy

[Matthew Brush]

On 08/05/11 20:35, Lex Trotman wrote:
> [...]
>>>
>>> Otherwise the only method would be to load a new copy of your wrapper
>>> and the python interpretor for each script you wanted to use. (Yuk,
>>> but might be the only way at the moment).
>>>
>>
>> In *theory* it might not be so bad, since there's a function
>> Py_IsInitialized() that could check to make sure if a Python interpreter has
>> been started, rather than starting a new one.  Since it's all in Geany's
>> (the same) process, this *should* work - without having seperate instances
>> of the Python interperter and the geany python modules for each sub-plugin.
>>   But still, each script would needs it's own (boiler-plate) loader C
>> file/.so/.dll in order to be detected by Geany, which does feel a little
>> wrong.
>>
>
> I suppose the dll loader won't let you load multiple copies of the
> same dll and resolve them all to the same copy?  Not that I can see
> from g_module...

I've never seen anything like this, fwiw.

>
> Otherwise I guess it "shouldn't" be too hard to add the extra
> functionality to Geany but getting stuff from the module is spread
> around a bit and you would need to be sure the module wasn't unloaded
> unexpectedly as well.
>

How can it be unloaded?

Cheers,
Matthew Brush