[Github-comments] [geany/geany] [question] Alternitives to general terminal output? (Python, Interpreter, Scite, Linux) (#1731)

[Colomban Wendling]

> That's some weird argumentation if you ask me ... sound to me your trying to say: 
> "_If its not there ... it must be not 'that' useful. As any (and all) Geany user that felt the want/need for it could and would have coded/added it to Geany_"

No, what @codebrainz is saying is that if it's not there it's 99% of the time because nobody wrote the code, usually because they didn't want the feature bad enough to step up and do it.
His statement is not 100% correct as I e.g. myself have occasionally worked on features I didn't want for myself, but as Geany is not run by a big team and is all volunteer effort, most of the time new features come from the people that wrote the actual code.  The more active team members will often work on some feature that was proposed a user and that they liked, but most of the time features that "core developers" don't particularly fancy need the contribution from the user(s).
We try our best to review proposals and code (although lately we're lacking manpower with time on their hands, I for example can unfortunately only allocate a little bit of time for Geany ATM), so if someone comes with an implementation we'll try and review it and integrate it if we think it's good.  Criteria for "good" include not interfering with other features, robust and conforming code, and for big features sometimes that it couldn't be implemented as a plugin just as well.

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