Subject: Re: I plan to move AbiGdkPixbuf into the main tree.
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 14:57:17 CST
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 18:39, Martin Sevior wrote:
> I plan to move the gnome-only plugin AbiGdkpixbuf into the main
> tree so that it is always built for the gnome platform. It's seems silly
> to leave it as plugin given every gnome user has the required library
> already.
It would seem fine however...
> Any objections?
I don't see any real advantage of doing that since it could deprive gtk
users of using gdk_pixbuf plugin.
It would seem to be an advantage for a less experienced user, however,
if he's so less experienced as not to be able to rpm -ivh another
package, than he won't even install abiword at all.
Also, that's presuming he wants that.
Disadvantages:
1) more troublesome creation of a seperate plugin for gtk version
2) plugin will "strangely" not be able to install since it will
conflict with the gnome build
3) less separation between plugins and _the_abiword_ app
Hugs, rms
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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