Am 31.01.2015 um 14:36 schrieb Enrico Tröger: > On 30/01/15 20:49, Lex Trotman wrote: >> On 31 January 2015 at 02:18, Jiří Techet <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> me again :-). With other Geany developers we have been discussing the future >>> of the GeanyPrj plugin. The problem is the original developer behind it has >>> abandoned the project so it is unmaintained now. There are several things we >>> could do: >>> >>> 1. Nothing - i.e. keep it in the plugins repository unmaintained. >>> >>> 2. Somebody volunteers to maintain it (anyone?). >>> >>> 3. The plugin will be removed from the geany-plugins repository. >>> >>> I would like to discuss the option (3) - while I haven't used the plugin >>> myself much, I think the main reason people were using it was you could see >>> multiple projects in the sidebar (and have them indexed). This is however >>> possible with my ProjectOrganizer plugin now (see the announcement) so the >>> question is whether there is any other use for the plugin. Otherwise I >>> believe ProjectOrganizer offers many more features and displays the project >>> files better so at least from my point of view (which may be biased), I >>> think ProjectOrganizer is more or less a superset of GeanyPrj. (One >>> exception is that with ProjectOrganizer you have to create projects >>> explicitly while with GeanyPrj there's just kind of implicit project >>> specification by pointing it to the directory where you keep projects). >>> >>> So my preferred choice is (3) but if someone still finds the plugin useful >>> and uses it, we can keep the plugin in the repository. >> >> The general principle that seems to have been established in the past >> is that plugins should remain until they break, or some major problem >> is found with them and nobody wants to fix it. > > True in general, though in this particular case I would vote for > removing geanyprj because > a) as Jiří said, ProjectOrganizer have mostly the same features and more > b) having one less project plugin for Geany would reduce users' > confusion and so also ease support of those > > My vote: option 3
+1 (for the same reasons.) Cheers, Frank
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