[Geany] Package and plugin management

[Sayth Renshaw]

After noticing a recent discussion regarding packaging themes I got
thinking(just a little, didn't hurt...much) and wondered if this could be
managed better. Not just themes but plugins as a whole.

The reason I raise this I have noticed recently several projects utilising
'independent' plugin management. Utilising github or rubygems to allow
authors and users to create and share plugins and manage and track issues
openly.

For example I have found.

Vim uses vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Once installed a user simply updates the vimrc with the github address.

Bundle 'git://somegit address.hit'

Then :BundleInstall

All plugin functionailty is then available to the user.
Similarly I found two other projects adopting a similar approach, redcar
changed its entire plugin system for redcar 0.12 so that users now type *gem
install redcar-plugin_name *to have the functionailty available. Another
project Sublime Text has a function builtin(amongst) several if you open it
I think ALT+P or something and select the package function it searches
github for plugins to install(not real sure exactly how this happens).

so I was just bringing this up because I thought the person previously who
packaged themes for fedora has done a good job but his/her effort needs to
be replicated for each platform/distribution, if utilising github we could
do it once for every platform and distribution.

Just a thought, it might invite/create more plugins being built for geany
and reduce the workload of the core developers who can remove limited use
functionailty to plugins and care more about the core.

Sayth
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