Hi everybody, I've just finished writing a Gnumeric plugin loader for the Pure programming language (http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/). Works great. :) But I do have two issues with the plugin API which I'd like to discuss here.
First, building a plugin outside of the Gnumeric source tree is a bit awkward, because the gnumeric-config.h and gnumeric-features.h headers are needed to compile plugins but they aren't installed anywhere. So right now I have to tell users to grab and configure the Gnumerics sources to get these headers. Couldn't those two headers please just be installed so that 3rd party plugin writers can rely on them? Should be just a matter of changing the toplevel Makefile.am. Second, the API to provide help information for plugin functions has changed, which seems to make it quite a bit harder to provide quick help information in scripting language plugins. Specifically, GNM_FUNC_HELP_OLD and the arg_names field of the GnmFuncDescriptor struct are gone. I'm sure that this was done on purpose ;-), but how are we supposed to do this now? Looking at the sources of the Perl and Python plugin loaders didn't help, AFAICS they haven't been converted to the new help format yet. Any help on that would be appreciated! Thanks, Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: dr.gr...@t-online.de, a...@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
