[Geany-Devel] RFC: New Custom Filetypes Repository

[Devyn Collier Johnson]

On 12/19/2015 09:11 PM, 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
>
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I love your idea Matthew Brush.

Thanks,
Devyn Collier Johnson