Am 08.02.2013 02:12, schrieb Matthew Brush: > On 13-02-07 04:09 PM, Thrawn wrote: >>>> Yes, without a maintainer, as soon as it breaks with a new version of >>>> Geany I would expect it to be removed from G-P package. The G-P >>>> maintainers have done a great job carrying the Lua plugin until now. >>> >>> From my remembering Nick did the biggest part of it. >> >> I'd be sorry to see it go. It seems to me that Lua scripting has huge >> potential, mostly overlooked; it can quickly and easily do many of the >> jobs that would normally be plugins (I've written short scripts to >> compare open files, edit files as hex, and quickly find+open files in >> the current project using partial file names). If it were a choice >> between fixing it and dropping it, I'd probably take up the job myself. >> > > IMO, it'd be silly removing a perfectly functional plugin unless it > breaks and no one wants to fix it. I doubt that'll happen anytime soon > with both Lua and Geany plugin API being quite stable, and unless the > breakage is massive and hard to fix, I'd also be willing to pitch in to > keep it working, as other contributors have done in the past. > > I'll also take this opportunity to point out the existence of > GeanyPy[1], which for me makes more sense since I know Python fairly > well and Lua not at all :)
Shouldn't we make it a bit more popular? Would it make it sense to include it maybe into geany-core-disribution? Just thinking. Cheers, Frank
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