[Geany-Devel] My non-C plugin roadmap

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 30/03/2015 00:17, Thomas Martitz a écrit :
> Am 29.03.2015 um 19:17 schrieb Colomban Wendling:
>> Le 29/03/2015 00:23, Thomas Martitz a écrit :
>>
>>> - New API functions to allow plugins to act as proxy plugins (pluxies).
>>> […]
>>
>> That's the part I'm really fuzzy about.  I really don't see why we need
>> this specific layer […]
> 
> […]
> 
> As with git master, Geany's core loader scans the plugin folder on
> startup and on opening the PM dialog. For each recognized plugin file it
> allocates a GeanyPluginPrivate and calls geany_load_module().
> 
> […] with my new loader (no pluxies) it goes like this, and this is *very*
> similar to git master.
>
> […]

OK, fair enough indeed.  And well, proxy plugins are special enough to
warrant their own API if it's useful anyway, so okay.

> Now, with pluxies, it is completely the same except for:
> 2* for each $file in $path, Geany calls is_plugin($file) which matches
> additional file extensions (as provided by pluxies), it also calls the
> probe() hook to resolve ambiguous files (e.g. .so files, they can be
> core or libpeas plugins)

As raised on IRC, one small question: do we need a file extension if we
have probe()?  I don't mind much, but I would imagine probe() could
filter extensions itself and simply return the appropriate value.  This
would also potentially allow for extensionless plugins.

But that's a small detail, and apart feeling it a little redundant I
don't mind either way.

> I hope you better understand my concept now.  […]

Yep, I do, thanks for these very good clarifications :)

Regards,
Colomban