Subject: Re: libole2 (was Re: commit -- POW - Beginning the Binary ...)
From: James Montgomerie (jamie@montgomerie.net)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 17:00:17 CST
"Paul Rohr" wrote:
> Subject: libole2 (was Re: commit -- POW - Beginning the Binary ...)
>
> Jamie's currently taking the lead on our efforts to switch wv over to
use
> libole2, so that we can start using wv to *export* Word documents,
and not
> just import them. Since libole2 integration is next on his list, I'm
sure
> he'll be especially interested. ;-)
>
>
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0314.html
Yup, I've got it now.
It looks quite well organised, and I think it shouldn't be too dificult
to fit it into the abi/wv framework (at first, at least).
One question to gtk/gnome gurus - the code seems to use some sort of
autodoc system to document itself, but I can't work out exactly how it
works (i.e. how do I generate the actual HTML documantation). I'm
possibly missing something obvious... [I guess the documantation might
be only of limited use - we'll probably need to understand the internals
too, but it'd still be nice to have.]
> Do you know whether anyone's attempted to build libole2 on non-Unix
> platforms? If not, that'll be one of the places we'll need to focus
our
> efforts.
The bug problem is glib, which we're not [currently] using. We could
merge glib into the tree too, but I think it should be possible to
'translate' most of the glib stuff to equivalent abi/wv stuff.
Otherwise, I haven't tried it, but it looks fairly standards-compliant,
so I don't think it'll cause too many XP headaches.
I'd vote not to use glib, but to port libole2 to our framework.
Jamie.
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