[Anjuta-list] [RFC] User-defined tools continued

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

Guys:

Thanks to those to replied to my initial post. I've started the
user-defined tools work and have some rough-cut working code in my local
copy. However, I'm desperately feeling the lack of a scripting language.
This would make writing user-defined tools *much* easier. So, I looked
around and it seems lua (http://www.lua.org) is the best bet, since it
is tiny (~ 150K), actively developed and easily embeddable in C programs
(at least it seems so from the example). However, it would take a good
couple of weeks more effort to create a decent scriptable interface. So,
what do yo guys think ? Is it worth the trouble ?

Another thing: the plugins menu seems out of place IMO. Also, there are
already too many menus and I'd not like to add another 'Tools' menu. So,
I'd like to enhance the plugin system so that plugins can be registered
under any menu. For example, the 'Class Creator' plugin really belongs
under the 'Edit' menu and so does the the "Patch" plugin. My 'tools'
code already has the feature so put tools under any menu. Is it OK if I
do the same with the plugins and do away with the 'Plugins' menu ? Or
would you rather I keep the 'Plugins' menu and add another 'Tools' menu
?

Rgds,
Biswa.