[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Update to Scintilla 4.x (#2519)

[Matthew Brush]

> Since its gonna be a disruptive change...

I don't think it will be that disruptive, or perhaps I misunderstand you.

> ...it should be made in a branch first

Almost every PR is made in a separate branch.

If you mean having two parallel branches going forward (similar to Scintilla head and LongTerm3 branches), I disagree. If someone comes along and wants to maintain a legacy branch, they can very easily get the previous version from Git (ie. check out the last release tag), backport whatever patches, and even request to host it on the main Github Geany repo, which I doubt anyone would dispute. Until then, I don't think it's worth the effort and we don't really have the manpower to backport patches and stuff.

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