[Geany-Devel] Adding a plugin

[Frank Lanitz]

On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:46:09 -0700
Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:

> On 13-06-08 02:54 AM, Roger Booth wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> > One thing I could ask for is a reference in the docs to where I can
> > find the correspondence between api and abi. Maybe thats the wrong
> > question, but anyway, how do i know which abi version I need? This
> > is in regards to PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK(xxx)
> >
> 
> As mentioned in other replies, there's the wiki page that maps API,
> ABI and other versions into a simple table.
> 
> IMO, plugin authors shouldn't have to bother with ABI numbers at all
> and API numbers should be transparent. If I want to write a plugin, I
> would like to have some boilerplate like:
> 
>      #include <geanyplugins.h>
> 
>      GEANY_PLUGIN_REGISTER(1, 24, 0, /* min supported geany version */
>                            "Hello World",
>                            "0.01",
>                            "Another hello world",
>                            "You <you at yourdomain.org>");
> 
>      void plugin_load(GeanyPlugin *plugin)
>      {
>          g_print("Loading plugin '%s'...\n",
>                  geany_plugin_get_name(plugin));
>      }
> 
>      void plugin_unload(GeanyPlugin *plugin)
>      {
>          g_print("Unloading plugin '%s'...\n",
>                  geany_plugin_get_name(plugin));
>      }


Well... Not sure whether it's really better than the current approach
but patches are welcome ;)

Cheers, 
Frank

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http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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