[Geany-Users] [RFC]: Does anyone use the Devhelp plugin?

[Matthew Brush]

On 2018-02-02 08:58 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> On 01.02.2018 01:40, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> I don't suppose you'd be interested in working on bringing it up to date
>> with Gtk3 and newer libdevhelp, would you?
> 
> Well..... I'm afraid .... oh look there!
> I'm currently using still Gtk2-desktop and not sure how much time I can
> invest. Days already packed with a lot of other stuff. So I'd be happy
> to test, but I'm afraid I cannot contribute much code.
> 

As both a user of the plugin and the GP maintainer, how sad would you be 
if the plugin was removed?

Keep in mind the current problems:

* Depends on an out-of-date, unmaintained version of libdevhelp, meaning 
it has a frozen version of the library embedded in GP[0]
* Depends on an out-of-date, unmaintained version of webkitgtk, which is 
causing problems for distros[1], and making it so the plugin won't be 
available anyway[2].
* While a Gtk3 port has been started[3], the lazy maintainer of this 
plugin has shown no interest in getting it finished since 2013.

I'm fine if you want to leave it in GP as is, or if you like, I could 
make a PR to rip it out of GP.

Let me know.

Regards,
Matthew Brush


[0]: https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/tree/master/devhelp/devhelp
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375807
[2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375807#c2
[3]: https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/pull/92