Subject: Re: [Patch] Psiconv TextEd and Word importer
From: ha shao (hashao@chinese.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 07:45:19 CST
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:23:44AM -0500, thomasf@qnx.com wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Has anyone given any thought to us using the Netscape Portable Runtime
> thingy so that we could make our importers/exporters work as plugins
> rather than having them bound directly into the executable. Never having
> written an importer or an exporter (though I'm tempted to look at a
> writing a WordPerfect one) how solid is our API and what are other
> people's thoughts on this?
This definitely should be done in the future. importers and exporters
should only be loaded whenever they are used and unload after they finished
their jobs. Otherwise, abiword will
be hopeless bloated when more and more filters are added in the future.
-- Best regard hashao
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