[Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins Dependency Consolidation

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 06.08.2012 03:38, schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 6 August 2012 05:35, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> On 12-08-05 07:57 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:55:07 +0200
>>> Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> For a list of the dependencies, you can look through the `build`
>>>>> directory's .m4 files and manually extract them (like I did for some
>>>>> of the shared ones previously). The ones with the highest versions
>>>>> will be the "minimum version required" to build geany-plugins (as a
>>>>> whole).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe building a script doing this would be a good idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> Having checked a couple of them I found it will be hard as they differ
>>> in way defining the dependencies...
>>>
>>
>> Yep and most don't specify their "shared" dependencies (GTK, GLIB, etc.)
>> explicitly but assume that if you have the Geany, you have what they need.
> 
> Agree with you that that is bad, they should be specified so that
> users can be sure that the plugin dev meant "any version will do"
> rather than that they just forgot to specify it :)

ACK.

Cheers,
Frank