[Geany-Devel] Adding a plugin

Roger Booth rbooth at xxxxx
Sun Jun 9 14:43:15 UTC 2013


On 06/09/2013 07:18 AM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> [...]
>
> But if I'm going to *improve* the docs, I *still* have an outstanding 
> (in a manner of speaking) question:
>
>
>     Why does the function plugin_init() accept the one parameter
>     GeanyData*?
>
>     The reason that is a question is that the three global variables
>
>     GeanyPlugin         *geany_plugin;
>     GeanyData           *geany_data;
>     GeanyFunctions      *geany_functions;
>
>     are available to a plugin and you will notice that one of those
>     global variables is geany_data which is suspiciously similar to
>     the parameter to plugin_init().
>
>
> Yes it is the same.
>
>
>     So either there is no reason to pass the parameter to
>     plugin_init() or there is a good reason to pass the parameter to
>     plugin_init().
>
>
> Since it is generally acknowledged that globals are bad, possibly 
> someone started the process of removing the globals by switching to 
> passing as parameters, but did not get time to finish the process or 
> ran into other problems, but there is no indication I can find of why 
> its that way.
>
>     [...]
>
>
> Cheers
> Lex
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So when I document plugin_init(), you are OK with me saying that the 
developer can use the global variable geany_data interchangeably with 
the parameter to plugin_init(), and this behavior will not change until 
-- gee, is this when the ABI changes?
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