[Geany-devel] Geany Plugins Warnings (again)

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Sun Oct 30 00:52:08 UTC 2011


[..]
>> They should be documented, IIUC the build script checks, thats why
>> they fail to build.
>>
>> Having to search the build script to find dependencies is not good.
>>
>
> The best situation would be to have the ./configure summary print something
> like this:
>
>  Plugins:
>    Addons:                       yes [automatic]
>    CodeNav:                      no  [disabled by user]
>    Debugger:                     no  [missing `vte' package]
>    [...]
>
> I'm not sure how much a PITA this would be to write though.

That of course is a better solution, but I assumed it was too hard
with autofools, WAF would of course just be print "I can't find ..."
in appropriate places.

Cheers
Lex



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