[Geany-Devel] Intro

[Lex Trotman]

On 5 October 2013 19:20, Thomas Martitz <
thomas.martitz at student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:

> Am 05.10.2013 11:11, schrieb Mark Robinson:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just a note to introduce myself. I am Mark, an old-timer coming from the
>> world of Fortran. My interest in Geany is to use it as a platform to
>> introduce specific functionality to help me and others in my line of work.
>>
>>
> Welcome!
>

And Hi also.


>
>> I’ll be requesting an additional file type (additional lexer I have
>> written) be added to Geany, but thereafter I expect most of the
>> functionality will come in the form of a plugin (I am writing one of these
>> as well). I am not a strong user of C/C++, as I said procedural Fortran is
>> my forte, and this is my first plunge into contributing to an open source
>> project, so expect some dumb questions.
>>
>>
> First of all, we have an upstream first ideology, partly because we don't
> have the resources to extra maintain patches for the projects we use. That
> means that if you write a lexer you should post that to Scintilla upstream,
> so that it will land into Geany when we update our copy. Then we can accept
> the filetype definition as well.
>

> Secondly, I think it might actually possible to write plugins mostly in
> fortran (although I'm not sure Fortran is a suitable language for this, I
> know nothing about it) with a little C boilerplate code. But GCC allows to
> call C functions from fortran doesn't it?
>

See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Interoperability-with-C.html but
C string handling in Fortran is messy, and for an IDE most code is string
handling.  As Thomas said, I think Fortran is probably not the right
language to use for a plugin.  In particular as all the plugin API is
actually calls via a function pointer, not direct function calls.

You should read (and re-read) the HACKING file, it covers adding a file
type and other issues around Geany development.

Cheers
Lex


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