[Geany] Query regarding plugin creation

[Nick Treleaven]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:01:03 -0400
"John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >  I just changed the TODO wishlist item for Python scripting to
> > 'Python plugin interface' - IMO there's no need for a competing
> > Python variant of your great Lua plugin. It would be more useful to
> > have Python bindings for the plugin API, so plugins could be
> > written in Python instead of C. This would be harder to write than
> > a Lua user 'script' but would also be more flexible, if it used
> > pygtk. Of course this is only a wishlist item, don't anyone expect
> > it to get done ;-)
> 
> Maybe have a look at the now-standard Python ctypes module.
> 
> * http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
> * http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html
> 
> Could be less work than you're expecting.

Thanks for this info. I think whichever automated generation approach
is best, there will still be work to do in making it work with Geany,
and I expect it would require changes to the plugin system. So I won't
work on this for now.

Regards,
Nick