[Geany-devel] Keybindings for GeanyPy

[Lex Trotman]

On 6 August 2011 14:11, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 08/05/11 21:01, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> Well I didn't read plugins.c in detail but I suspected that ATM when
>> you deactivate a plugin in the plugin manager it will unload the
>> module, but that would be bad for a shared module.
>>
>> In fact seems to close and re-open whenever you toggle the activate
>> checkbox, see pm_plugin_toggled() calls plugin_free() which closes the
>> module.
>>
>> Just means that you need to be careful when you patch it that the
>> Python plugin isn't unloadable without unloading all its dependent
>> plugins.
>>
>
> I think it'll be ok if it's using g_module_make_resident[1], which should
> ensure that first Python interpreter (libpythonX.X.so) would never get
> unloaded, and so always be Py_IsInitialized().  Basically, I don't care if
> you can't reclaim your XX megabytes of RAM until you restart Geany :)
>

Sounds fair, I havn't used more than about 2Gb of my 4Gb that I have
noticed, despite firefox's best efforts.

BTW what are the restrictions on what Python can be used when Geany
calls a Python callback, I guess everything has to be a function that
runs to completion.  Can it be a closure, can it use yield, can it use
threads, can it do async I/O so as not to block Geany?

Cheers
Lex

>
> [1]
> http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/pluginutils_8h.html#ac402e1d165036aaeb5ae1e176e536c36
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
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