[Geany-Devel] RFC: New Custom Filetypes Repository

[Frank Lanitz]

On 20.12.2015 03:11, Matthew Brush wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We often get contributions for adding custom filetypes to Geany, and we
> even have some in the source tree already. We tend to not want to add
> them to Geany repo, usually due to limited functionality, or limited
> popularity.
> 
> I would like to propose that we add a new repository to Github, similar
> to geany-themes, where we add any custom filetypes that are useful, but
> perhaps aren't up to par or popular enough to add to Geany proper. This
> would give a single place to get them all at once (via Git or Github Zip
> file download), and also a repo for packagers to use should they want to
> provide a package.
> 
> Inside the repo we could have the README or some other file cataloging
> all the filetypes, along with who contributed them, their status, like
> whether tag parsing works, syntax lexing, and such meta info. As a
> start, we could add all of the filetypes from the Wiki[0], any useful
> ones from pull requests, and even any questionable ones already in Geany
> (if there are any). We could also add some shell script or something to
> install them into a user's home dir all at once, if that's useful.
> 
> What do you think?

I like that idea.


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