[Geany-Devel] Geany plugin maintenance

[Lex Trotman]

On 25 March 2014 07:53, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:42:15 -0700
> Shankhoneer Chakrovarty <shankhoneer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As per the last discussion ( email subject: Hi! ) I started looking
>> at the geany-plugin project. I found the following plugins orphaned:
>> 1. codenav
>> 2. geanylua
>> 3. pretty-printer
>> 4. shiftcolumn
>>
>> All these plugins are still alive (I think).
>>
>> I was not able to build geany-plugin as the configure expects geany
>> version to be 1.24. I have geany version 1.23 installed in ubuntu.
>> Can somebody please help me to install the geany-plugin? I have
>> cloned geany and geany-plugin directory.
>
> You will need to start to build recent Geany from git. This can be done
> via ./autogen.sh (from git ..), make sudo make install -- or using
> waf ./waf configure && ./waf build && sudo ./waf install

NO, don't do this for development (sorry Frank :)

Don't overwrite your system geany with a development version, if it
breaks you may not be able to edit it to fix it (without using say
gedit :).  That applies even more to plugins.

Cheers
lex

>
> After that you can start building the plugins. You might need to adjust
> the path to make geany-plugins find your geany 1.24 (or just deinstall
> the geany 1.23.1 package from ubuntu ;) ) However -- compiling the
> plugins can be done in the same manner.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
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