[Geany-Devel] GeanyPy: (Re: Lua script idea: vim overlay)

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 08.02.2013 02:12, schrieb Matthew Brush:
> On 13-02-07 04:09 PM, Thrawn wrote:
>>>> Yes, without a maintainer, as soon as it breaks with a new version of
>>>> Geany I would expect it to be removed from G-P package.  The G-P
>>>> maintainers have done a great job carrying the Lua plugin until now.
>>>
>>>  From my remembering Nick did the biggest part of it.
>>
>> I'd be sorry to see it go. It seems to me that Lua scripting has huge
>> potential, mostly overlooked; it can quickly and easily do many of the
>> jobs that would normally be plugins (I've written short scripts to
>> compare open files, edit files as hex, and quickly find+open files in
>> the current project using partial file names). If it were a choice
>> between fixing it and dropping it, I'd probably take up the job myself.
>>
> 
> IMO, it'd be silly removing a perfectly functional plugin unless it
> breaks and no one wants to fix it. I doubt that'll happen anytime soon
> with both Lua and Geany plugin API being quite stable, and unless the
> breakage is massive and hard to fix, I'd also be willing to pitch in to
> keep it working, as other contributors have done in the past.
> 
> I'll also take this opportunity to point out the existence of
> GeanyPy[1], which for me makes more sense since I know Python fairly
> well and Lua not at all :)

Shouldn't we make it a bit more popular? Would it make it sense to
include it maybe into geany-core-disribution? Just thinking.

Cheers,
Frank


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