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<p>but currently any external plugin that want to do things right have to re-implement a lot of GP's build system checks and features</p>
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<p>Is there really that much it would need to re-implement? Maybe some gettext stuff, possibly something like --with-geany-libdir and own check like PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GEANY],[geany])?</p>
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<p>We could also distribute a separate geany-plugins.m4 file that provides external plugins choosing to use Autotools with a convenience M4 function library.</p>

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