diff --git a/scripts/plugin_test.c b/scripts/plugin_test.c
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--- a/scripts/plugin_test.c
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@@ -1,123 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *      plugin_test.c
- *
- *      Copyright 2010-2011 Enrico Tröger <enrico(dot)troeger(at)uvena(dot)de>
- *      Copyright 2010-2011 Nick Treleaven <nick(dot)treleaven(at)btinternet(dot)com>
- *
- *      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- *      (at your option) any later version.
- *
- *      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- *      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- *      GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- *      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *      along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- *      Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
- *      MA 02110-1301, USA.
- */
-
-
-/* This code tries to load the passed Geany plugin
- * (passed as path, e.g. pluginname.so) and looks up some symbols.
- * Example use case for this tool is to test whether a plugin is
- * loadable and defines all required symbols.
- *
- * This file is not built during the normal build process, instead
- * compile it on your with the following command in the root of the Geany source tree:
- *
- * cc -o plugin_test scripts/plugin_test.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0`
- */
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <glib.h>
-#include <gmodule.h>
-
-
-static gboolean tp_check_version(GModule *module)
-{
-	/* TODO implement me */
-	return TRUE;
-}
-
-
-static void tp_close_module(GModule *module)
-{
-	if (! g_module_close(module))
-		g_warning("%s: %s", g_module_name(module), g_module_error());
-}
-
-
-/* Emulate loading a plugin and looking up some symbols,
- * similar to what Geany would do on loading the plugin.
- */
-static gboolean test_plugin(const gchar *filename)
-{
-	GModule *module;
-	void (*plugin_set_info)(void*);
-	void (*init) (void *data);
-	void (*cleanup) (void);
-
-	g_return_val_if_fail(filename, FALSE);
-	g_return_val_if_fail(g_module_supported(), FALSE);
-
-	module = g_module_open(filename, G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL);
-	if (! module)
-	{
-		g_warning("Can't load plugin: \"%s\": %s", filename, g_module_error());
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	if (! tp_check_version(module))
-	{
-		tp_close_module(module);
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	g_module_symbol(module, "plugin_set_info", (void *) &plugin_set_info);
-	if (plugin_set_info == NULL)
-	{
-		g_warning("No plugin_set_info() defined for \"%s\" - consider fixing the plugin!", filename);
-		tp_close_module(module);
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	g_module_symbol(module, "plugin_init", (void *) &init);
-	if (init == NULL)
-	{
-		g_warning("Plugin '%s' has no plugin_init() function - consider fixing the plugin!", filename);
-		tp_close_module(module);
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	g_module_symbol(module, "plugin_cleanup", (void *) &cleanup);
-	if (cleanup == NULL)
-	{
-		g_warning("Plugin '%s' has no plugin_cleanup() function - there may be memory leaks!", filename);
-	}
-
-	tp_close_module(module);
-
-	return TRUE;
-}
-
-
-gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv)
-{
-	gint i;
-	gint result = 0;
-
-	g_set_prgname("plugin_test");
-	/* we could perform better argument processing here as well as more error checking but
-	 * it's probably not worth at all */
-	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
-	{
-		if (! test_plugin(argv[i]))
-			result = 1;
-	}
-
-	return result;
-}