Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-14 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 23:34, Colomban Wendling a écrit : Le 11/03/2011 19:37, Colomban Wendling a écrit : Le 08/03/2011 22:29, Colomban Wendling a écrit : I'd like to commit this to the Autotools build system: 1) run cppcheck on `make check`; 2) enable by default, if compiler understands them, the

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-13 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:32:48 +1100, Lex wrote: Actually I check whether the compiler understand each flag, so it would be easy to support any compiler. I only talk about GCC warnings because I only know GCC's flags, but if somebody knows some other, we might add them. Do you want to integrate

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-13 Thread Thomas Martitz
On 11.03.2011 19:37, Colomban Wendling wrote: Do you have objections, comment or whatever? I largely agree with all of what Lex said. * I routinely add temporary debug code without the proper headers (because I know it works) so making this break the build would be inconvinient for me

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-13 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:52:24 +0100, Thomas wrote: On 13.03.2011 14:50, Enrico Tröger wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:39:29 +0100, Thomas wrote: On 13.03.2011 14:35, Enrico Tröger wrote: Something like ./configure --enable-extra-c-warnings (or shorter if you prefer ^^) ...so this sounds good

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-13 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 13/03/2011 15:08, Enrico Tröger a écrit : On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:52:24 +0100, Thomas wrote: On 13.03.2011 14:50, Enrico Tröger wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:39:29 +0100, Thomas wrote: On 13.03.2011 14:35, Enrico Tröger wrote: Something like ./configure --enable-extra-c-warnings (or shorter

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-13 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi, On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:57:36 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troe...@uvena.de wrote: Do you want to integrate these flags into the build system? I don't think this is a good idea. Such flags should be set outside of the build system by the developer/user, not automatically. This is why they

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-13 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:18:09 +0100, Colomban wrote: Le 13/03/2011 15:08, Enrico Tröger a écrit : On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:52:24 +0100, Thomas wrote: On 13.03.2011 14:50, Enrico Tröger wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:39:29 +0100, Thomas wrote: On 13.03.2011 14:35, Enrico Tröger wrote: Something

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Yura Siamashka
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Unfortunately, believe me that non-fatal warnings are use to be ignored by unexperienced programmers, believing that if their code compile it is then OK. And I don't see why a warning upgraded to an error

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:04:31 +1100 Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 March 2011 11:35, Matthew Brush matthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/11/11 15:24, Frank Lanitz wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0300 Alexander Petukhovalexander.petuk...@mail.ru  wrote: 5. Other language

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:37:14 +1100 Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com wrote: Maaaybe, sort of see your point, but not really convinced that uprating warnings to errors is a good idea on the dev codebase, it stops people trying and testing things. I agree. A failing build is more demotivating for

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Maaaybe, sort of see your point, but not really convinced that uprating warnings to errors is a good idea on the dev codebase, it stops people trying and testing things. Unfortunately, believe me that

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Lex Trotman
On 12 March 2011 20:21, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Maaaybe, sort of see your point, but not really convinced that uprating warnings to errors is a good idea on the dev codebase, it stops

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Lex Trotman
On 12 March 2011 20:54, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:49:10 +1100 Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 March 2011 20:21, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote:

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 09:31, Yura Siamashka a écrit : On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Unfortunately, believe me that non-fatal warnings are use to be ignored by unexperienced programmers, believing that if their code compile it is then OK. And

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:55:52 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 12/03/2011 10:49, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 12 March 2011 20:21, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote:

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:09:29 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: This issue is the same for for all other validation tools (valgrind, etc). Actually such maintains bother can be enough reason to abandon geany-plugins and move plugins to somewhere else. It would

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 11/03/2011 19:37, Colomban Wendling a écrit : Le 08/03/2011 22:29, Colomban Wendling a écrit : I'd like to commit this to the Autotools build system: 1) run cppcheck on `make check`; 2) enable by default, if compiler understands them, the following warnings (discussed in other mails of

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:34:56 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Maybe we might directly use -Wall, but it warns about some things that are not really needed, such as unused functions. Well, I'd like to get informed about unused functions. Cheers, Frank --

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 23:49, Frank Lanitz a écrit : On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:34:56 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Maybe we might directly use -Wall, but it warns about some things that are not really needed, such as unused functions. Well, I'd like to get informed about

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 13/03/2011 02:38, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 13 March 2011 09:34, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: [...] * -Warray-bounds: warns about some out-of-bound array subscripting * -Wformat: warns about wrong format/arguments in printf-like functions * -Wimplicit-int: warns if

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-12 Thread Lex Trotman
On 13 March 2011 13:57, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 13/03/2011 02:38, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 13 March 2011 09:34, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: [...]  * -Warray-bounds: warns about some out-of-bound array subscripting  * -Wformat: warns about

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 08/03/2011 22:29, Colomban Wendling a écrit : Le 08/03/2011 19:58, Enrico Tröger a écrit : On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:06:16 +0100, Frank wrote: I like that idea. Can someone of you build up a howto on how to use it? I did try valgrind in past and wished for some advice ;) One this is done we

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:27:06 -0800 Matthew Brush matthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/09/11 03:42, Frank Lanitz wrote: Hi, Am 23.02.2011 01:10, schrieb Matthew Brush: Another thing could be to make mandatory that documentation is existent and current, up to some standard. I mean for

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:37:14 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: 2) cppcheck reports an error on geanylatex plugin; but I know Frank already fixed this and so has probably only to import the fix in the geany-plugins copy. Yepp. Should be the issue we talked about before.

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0300 Alexander Petukhov alexander.petuk...@mail.ru wrote: And one more thing, as a debian user I see that there is still 0.19 plugins version even in unstable, maybe it's a good idea to move current developing version (0.21?) to unstable / testing to make

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0300 Alexander Petukhov alexander.petuk...@mail.ru wrote: 5. Other language bindings - don't really think it can increase plugins quality dramatically, there can be problems in any language that you have to solve in order to make your code work correctly. I

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:41:54 -0800 Matthew Brush matthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: 4. Removing unsupported plugins from releases what do you think about the following scheme: divide all pluging into: - supported (that are acting really well) - unsupported or bad (having problems) ? So,

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:36:50 -0800 Matthew Brush matthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/11/11 14:43, Frank Lanitz wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:27:06 -0800 Matthew Brushmatthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/09/11 03:42, Frank Lanitz wrote: Hi, Am 23.02.2011 01:10, schrieb Matthew

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 01:18, Lex Trotman a écrit : Maybe some other tests might be good, but I think this is a start. I'd like to commit this to the Autotools build system: 1) run cppcheck on `make check`; 2) enable by default, if compiler understands them, the following warnings (discussed in other

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Lex Trotman
On 12 March 2011 11:23, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 12/03/2011 01:18, Lex Trotman a écrit : Maybe some other tests might be good, but I think this is a start. I'd like to commit this to the Autotools build system: 1) run cppcheck on `make check`; 2) enable by

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Matthew Brush
On 03/11/11 15:24, Frank Lanitz wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0300 Alexander Petukhovalexander.petuk...@mail.ru wrote: 5. Other language bindings - don't really think it can increase plugins quality dramatically, there can be problems in any language that you have to solve in order to

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 01:32, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 12 March 2011 11:23, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 12/03/2011 01:18, Lex Trotman a écrit : Maybe some other tests might be good, but I think this is a start. I'd like to commit this to the Autotools build system: 1) run

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Lex Trotman
On 12 March 2011 11:35, Matthew Brush matthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/11/11 15:24, Frank Lanitz wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0300 Alexander Petukhovalexander.petuk...@mail.ru  wrote: 5. Other language bindings - don't really think it can increase plugins quality dramatically,

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 01:51, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 12 March 2011 11:44, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 12/03/2011 01:32, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 12 March 2011 11:23, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 12/03/2011 01:18, Lex Trotman a écrit : Maybe some

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 12/03/2011 02:37, Lex Trotman a écrit : The general consensus seemed to be to not disable plugins from the nightly builds or SVN just because they fail some tests, so these will have to all be warnings. It's a bit more complicated IMO: if these warnings are on by default in everyone's

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Lex Trotman
On 12 March 2011 12:53, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 12/03/2011 02:37, Lex Trotman a écrit : The general consensus seemed to be to not disable plugins from the nightly builds or SVN just because they fail some tests, so these will have to all be warnings. It's a bit

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Matthew Brush
On 03/11/11 18:21, Lex Trotman wrote: I agree that warnings should be fixed, but... Not only the developer is going to be using the plugins, people who are testing or even just using the latest will be, so you screw them up as well as the original developer :-( Considering the plugin in

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Matthew Brush
On 03/11/11 18:33, Matthew Brush wrote: On 03/11/11 18:21, Lex Trotman wrote: I agree that warnings should be fixed, but... Not only the developer is going to be using the plugins, people who are testing or even just using the latest will be, so you screw them up as well as the original

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-11 Thread Lex Trotman
On 12 March 2011 13:33, Matthew Brush matthewbr...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/11/11 18:21, Lex Trotman wrote: I agree that warnings should be fixed, but... Not only the developer is going to be using the plugins, people who are testing or even just using the latest will be, so you screw them up

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 09/03/2011 05:31, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Colomban, Agree with most, comment on the rest below. On 9 March 2011 14:00, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 08/03/2011 22:29, Colomban Wendling a écrit : Le 08/03/2011 19:58, Enrico Tröger a écrit : On Tue, 08 Mar 2011

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Matthew Brush
On 03/09/11 03:42, Frank Lanitz wrote: Hi, Am 23.02.2011 01:10, schrieb Matthew Brush: Another thing could be to make mandatory that documentation is existent and current, up to some standard. I mean for README, manual, and also doc-comments in code (ex. each function/global must have a

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Lex Trotman
On 10 March 2011 00:45, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 09/03/2011 05:31, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Colomban, Agree with most, comment on the rest below. On 9 March 2011 14:00, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 08/03/2011 22:29, Colomban Wendling a

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Martitz
On 10.03.2011 01:23, Lex Trotman wrote: On 10 March 2011 00:45, Colomban Wendlinglists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 09/03/2011 05:31, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Colomban, Agree with most, comment on the rest below. On 9 March 2011 14:00, Colomban Wendlinglists@herbesfolles.org wrote:

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 10/03/2011 01:23, Lex Trotman a écrit : On 10 March 2011 00:45, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 09/03/2011 05:31, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Colomban, Agree with most, comment on the rest below. On 9 March 2011 14:00, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Lex Trotman
On 10 March 2011 11:57, Thomas Martitz thomas.mart...@student.htw-berlin.de wrote: On 10.03.2011 01:23, Lex Trotman wrote: On 10 March 2011 00:45, Colomban Wendlinglists@herbesfolles.org  wrote: Le 09/03/2011 05:31, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi Colomban, Agree with most, comment on the

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-09 Thread Lex Trotman
So maybe I was just plain wrong and should update my bias :) I actually don't know much about this -- and I should blame myself to speak about it then. Don't ever not talk about something because you might not know much about it, because then we'd never get to discuss much at all :-) (Or at

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-08 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:58:16 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troe...@uvena.de wrote: On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:06:16 +0100, Frank wrote: Am 23.02.2011 01:10, schrieb Matthew Brush: For first thing, maybe we could enforce use/passing of those tools mentioned and these before adding to release,

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-03-08 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 08/03/2011 19:58, Enrico Tröger a écrit : On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:06:16 +0100, Frank wrote: Am 23.02.2011 01:10, schrieb Matthew Brush: For first thing, maybe we could enforce use/passing of those tools mentioned and these before adding to release, examples: http://www.splint.org/

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 23.02.2011 04:01, schrieb Lex Trotman: Of course on the other hand because the maintainers are volunteers with limited time this process slows changes, but IMHO this is necessary. Having more maintainers for a piece of code is of course the solution, but as we are finding, its hard to

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-23 Thread Alexander Petukhov
If nobody mind, let me state my opinions: 1. Maintaining I believe there has to be only one maintainer who is commiting code. As for me, the amount of code in a ordinary geany plugin is not that huge, one can easily support it. Others who has patches/improvements have to send them to the

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-23 Thread Matthew Brush
On 02/23/11 04:28, Alexander Petukhov wrote: If nobody mind, let me state my opinions: 1. Maintaining I believe there has to be only one maintainer who is commiting code. As for me, the amount of code in a ordinary geany plugin is not that huge, one can easily support it. Others who has

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Colomban Wendling
Hi, Le 22/02/2011 17:28, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Hi folks, And again it happen to me that Geany did crash due some issue with a plugin which might not have been tested very well before checking in /committing. However, I don't want to point with my finger to any developer so I'm asking how

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 22.02.2011 19:36, schrieb Colomban Wendling: So my 1st suggestion is to remove all plugins which do have known issues and don't compile with some -W-flags (needs to be defined) from common build until these are fixed. Also remove plugins which don't bring propper documentation as well are

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Martitz
Hit enter too early :) Am 22.02.2011 19:36, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Finally, I don't point my finger to anybody neither, but I know some of the developers aren't experienced C developers. They then probably cannot really review their own code for C problems. I also observed this, and I

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 22/02/2011 20:04, Thomas Martitz a écrit : Am 22.02.2011 19:36, schrieb Colomban Wendling: So my 1st suggestion is to remove all plugins which do have known issues and don't compile with some -W-flags (needs to be defined) from common build until these are fixed. Also remove plugins which

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 22.02.2011 21:40, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Le 22/02/2011 20:04, Thomas Martitz a écrit : Am 22.02.2011 19:36, schrieb Colomban Wendling: So my 1st suggestion is to remove all plugins which do have known issues and don't compile with some -W-flags (needs to be defined) from common build

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi, On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:36:51 +0100 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Hi, Le 22/02/2011 17:28, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Hi folks, And again it happen to me that Geany did crash due some issue with a plugin which might not have been tested very well before

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:07:44 +0100 Thomas Martitz thomas.mart...@student.htw-berlin.de wrote: Hit enter too early :) Am 22.02.2011 19:36, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Finally, I don't point my finger to anybody neither, but I know some of the developers aren't experienced C developers.

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:04:17 +0100 Thomas Martitz thomas.mart...@student.htw-berlin.de wrote: Am 22.02.2011 19:36, schrieb Colomban Wendling: So my 1st suggestion is to remove all plugins which do have known issues and don't compile with some -W-flags (needs to be defined) from common

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 22.02.2011 23:00, schrieb Frank Lanitz: I also observed this, and I think that's a major part of the problem. Hopefully we can code plugins in friendlier languages, such as Vala or python soon (work on both is ongoing). Even in Vala or Python you can write bad code... I'm very experienced in

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 22/02/2011 22:59, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Le 22/02/2011 17:28, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Hi folks, And again it happen to me that Geany did crash due some issue with a plugin which might not have been tested very well before checking in /committing. However, I don't want to point with my

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 22/02/2011 23:39, Thomas Martitz a écrit : I didn't mean to say I would like to do work on someone else's plugin (as in new features). Just fix the most immediate problems. If the fix not a few-liner or no brainer I wouldn't bother with it any further anyway (but instead just disable the

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 23.02.2011 00:04, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Don't get me wrong: I'm not against it. Why not. Actually, as far as everything goes right, I'm happy with your proposal. But I also fear what can happen if we don't explicitly ask the author. Sure, not without asking first. Best regards.

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Matthew Brush
Hi all, For first thing, maybe we could enforce use/passing of those tools mentioned and these before adding to release, examples: http://www.splint.org/ http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html (suppression for GTK - http://people.gnome.org/~johan/gtk.suppression)

Re: [Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

2011-02-22 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi All, To add my 2c to a number of posts above, taking advantage of my timezone to be able to summarise :-): When you provide code to open source, in a sense, you no longer own the code, the purpose of open sourcing is to allow others to use and abuse it. However as Colomban says, maintainers