On 2016-03-12 03:28 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
On 12/03/16 02:56, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2016-03-06 02:52 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
as you might have noticed, Geany 1.27 is near.
And among all the many cool code changes this will bring, we also
switched to the MSYS2 environment on Windows to build Geany.
Paired with this we changed the build system from Waf to Autotools on
Windows and also the bundled GTK runtime environment is taken from the
MSYS2 environment.
So quite a few changes regarding the Windows support.
Ideally, users won't notice this much as Geany should work as before.
There should be only place where users notice the changes: in the plugin
manager. Beginning with 1.27, we will ship many more plugins like
Markdown, Webhelper, GeanyPG and some more which were not built before
because of missing dependencies.
The drawback is that the size of the Plugins installer increased from
about 3 MB to 30 MB, but hey, you get WebkitGTK for Windows included.
This is more than just batteries :).
Is GeanyPy in there? I remember some discussion about it but I can't
find it anywhere to see what the result was.
Nope, sorry.
It was already a lot of work to get the majority of the plugins working
and all the related work with changing from Waf to Autotools on MSYS2.
I skipped the GeanyPy part.
Bummer. GeanyPy was written to be Windows-friendly from day one, and
upstream even has a Make file to create a Windows release. Maybe I could
generate a new installer from upstream and host/link it on geany.org
releases page?
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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