[Geany-devel] Adding a list of filetypes into devel documentation?

[Frank Lanitz]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:28:17 -0700
Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:

> On 08/16/2011 11:38 PM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:19:35 -0700
> > Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
> >
> >> I probably don't understand the topic enough, but to me, it would
> >> be cool to say:
> >>
> >> 	PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK(0, 20, 42)
> >>
> >> To mean: "This plugin will only work on the 42nd API change since
> >> the 0.20 release or later".
> >
> > This will end up in a real mass and will cause some unneeded
> > maintenance effort on plugin side. So e.g. would be a (0, 21, 45)
> > something like (0, 20, 87)? You got the point?
> >
> 
> Unfortunately I don't understand your point :(
> 
> It's not really important anyway, I just think in general it would be 
> nice to have it be easier to make new plugins work with older Geany 
> versions.
> 
> Probably the biggest problem I've had is not being able to check if 
> GEANY_API_VERSION is < 200, but this will be less and less of an
> issue over time :)

As discussed on some other place this is most likely something needs to
be done on compiletime and, well, I don't see any reasons why coding
for Geany 0.19 or 0.18. 

Cheers, 
Frank
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http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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