Subject: Re: [Patch] Psiconv TextEd and Word importer
From: David Nay (dnay@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 08:11:10 CST
--- ha shao <hashao@chinese.com> wrote:
> 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.
I would have to agree. Modular Imp/Exp seems like the
logical way to go.
>
> --
> Best regard
> hashao
>
=====
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