[Geany] geany-dev, plugins (was Re: Modifying the document browser's behavior)

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:01:51 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:59:30 +0100
> Joerg Desch <jd.vvd at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > By the way. The official Debian package doesn't have a development
> > package. I think this is a must have to allow people to write
> > plugins. Do you have contact to the Debian folks?
The Debian package maintainer is reading this list and as
far as I know (Damián, correct me if I'm wrong) a Geany user ;-).
 
> Personally I don't, but maybe there is something we can do to help
And we don't have to. First, as I told, Damián is reading this list.
Second, creating a -dev(el) package from a source package is the job of
a distro's package maintainer. We (the Geany developers)
release/distribute only one source package which can be used to build
several other packages from, e.g. geany, geany-dev, geany-plugins or
whatever. But this is more or less completely in the responsibility of
the package maintainer.
The only thing we have to do is to refactor some of the sources so a
-dev(el) package can be created in a sane way. A sane way means that
only a few headers files are necessary to be used by plugins. At the
moment, plugins can use all header files from Geany. This is the easy
solution but would require a dev(el) package to include all Geany
header files which contain parts of the plugin API.
I think this is not what we should do.

Regards,
Enrico

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