On 13 November 2016 at 05:47, Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> wrote: > On 2016-11-11 03:24 PM, Matthew Brush wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I was seeking help for some issue for the Markdown plugin with WebKitGtk >> today on IRC and someone pointed out this issue with Fedora: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375807 >> >> Basically the whole Geany-Plugins package will be removed since one of >> the plugins uses an older version of a library that will be removed from >> Fedora. >> >> IMO, it would be wise to separately package plugins to prevent one >> outdated plugin from getting the others removed. AFAIK this is how it's >> packaged on Debians. >> > > Actually according to the mailing list post (with a quite annoying tone) > linked from the bug report, it lists: > > geany-plugins-devhelp-0:1.27-1.fc24.x86_64 > geany-plugins-geanypy-0:1.27-1.fc24.x86_64 > geany-plugins-markdown-0:1.27-1.fc24.x86_64 > geany-plugins-webhelper-0:1.27-1.fc24.x86_64
Although a post further down has rawhide geany-plugins-1.28-1.fc26.src.rpm, so the src is one package, might be the reason. > > So perhaps Fedora does package them separately? The fellow on IRC said all > of Geany would be removed, so I'm a little confused. Also I'm not sure why > GeanyPy is listed, it doesn't use Webkit at all and Devhelp plugin uses it > indirectly through libdevhelp. > > The other thing is that none of the plugins really use general WWW untrusted > code, but rather just whatever the user is working on (ie. Devhelp docs, > HTML generated from Markdown, their own HTML files). I guess these are more > "special flowers" as the OP so politely put it. > > Anyway, we could indeed upgrade to the newer version if we want to re-write > the affected plugin code, drop gtk2 support and stop being able to work on > Windows. Probably using conditional compilation to support both is the way > forward for the immediate future. I guess for Fedora, they'll have to either > enable GTK3 build (and lose a bunch of unported plugins) or stay with GTK2 > build (and lose any old Webkit-using plugins). > > Regards, > Matthew Brush > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
