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Re: how to proceed with geany-plugins 0.19



On Sunday 05,September,2010 12:48 AM, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 03:35 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:37:23 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
>>
>>> RT, is this ok for you? Even if it has to go through new?
>>>
>> Sorry for the delay.  Are we missing out on a lot if we only ship the
>> existing plugins, and not the new ones?  If not then I think that would
>> be best for now.
> 
> We miss the codenav, extrasel, insertnum, prettyprinter and treebrowser
> plugins then. I do not consider any of these essential for the regular
> work with geany, so we could drop them from the release. However I do
> not know how users will think when they know upstream released 0.19 with
> these, but Debian does not ship them while calling the version also 0.19
> (with my Debian hat off and the user hat on, I'd have a short wtf
> moment, looking at the version number and expecting the plugins being
> there).
> 
> @hyperair: do you have any strong opinion on this? Julien is right
> saying dropping all new plugins is the easiest way to go.

I agree with everything mentioned here. The aforementioned plugins are not
particularly necessary for normal Geany use, just extra nifty features. I
believe The best way to approach this, considering we're frozen, is to leave out
the new plugins.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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