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

Frank Lanitz frank at xxxxx
Thu Aug 18 07:56:28 UTC 2011


On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:14:10 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> > However, once a user is compiling its own plugin, they can also
> > compile Geany. The dependencies are most likely similar and the
> > efforts not much bigger, once you have set up gcc, libgtk2-dev etc.
> 
> Why would we expect a PHP or Python developer on Windows to have the
> ability to build plugins, they would have to set up the whole mingw
> thing as well as compiler and gtk and other tools.  Huge disincentive.

We talked about outdated distribution as e.g. Ubuntu LTS. A windows dev
could use latest stable release of plugins and Geany as provided on
homepage or nightly. 

Cheers, 
Frank
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