[Geany-Devel] DMAP file type

[Lex Trotman]

On 12 February 2014 01:40, Mark Robinson <mark.robinson at mscsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> In October of last year, I made a request to Scintilla to add a new lexer to
> the Scintilla upstream component to support the DMAP language; the lexer was
> added to version 3.3.7 of Scintilla in December last year.  Currently
> Scintilla is at version 3.3.9
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To be fair, there was only a week between 3.3.8 and 3.3.9 :)  The
current version in Geany git HEAD is 3.3.6, its not known if this will
be updated before the release.  The update rate tends to slow near
releases to allow it to "mature" a bit.

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> In anticipation of an update to Geany to use Scintilla 3.3.7 or later, I'd
> now like to add a new filetype to Geany which leverages the new lexer.  Back
> in October, I modified a few files in the build in order to support the new
> filetype.  How do I go about making these modification available to the
> Geany nightly system so they will eventually end up in the next official
> release?  Do I provide complete modified source, or a diff file showing the
> changes?
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A pull request on github is the preferred path.

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> Once the new filetype is in place, I have a new plugin ready for release to
> manipulate the DMAP language.  Do you know when Geany 1.24.1 (which I hope
> will include the new filetype) might make the scene?

1.24 is only waiting on a fix for a major bug in the windows version.
We think we might have that fix now.  I would guess its unlikely that
anything else too major will be added before release to ensure its all
reasonably mature and tested.

Cheers
Lex

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> Thanks...M
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