[Geany] Status and direction ?

Bo Lorentsen bl at xxxxx
Sun Feb 25 20:01:04 UTC 2007


Enrico Tröger wrote:
> at the moment only the management of some project data(like name, file
> patterns, base path, description) is possible, more things and actual
> functionality will follow soon. So, at the moment you can create and
> open project files which contain information about a project but you
> can't do anything with it ;-).
So I have noticed :-)

> In the future you'll can set up separate build options for the whole
> project, specify file patterns to define which files belong to a
> project and some other things.
Hmm, ok ... so you can't add and delete files in a project at the 
moment, but what is the end goal of this project manager function ?

>> Have anyone thought about making it all script able in f.ex. python
> Me not. And personally, I don't like it very much. We are planning to
> add a plugin interface somewhen and then many things could be realised
> as plugins independent from the main code.
Ok, plugin structure will be able to access all the geany functionality ?

> Compiler output will already be parsed. Makefile creation could be
> added or could be a plugin in the future.
Ok, but the general idea is plugins, and no scripting ...

/BL



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