Re: directory structure (was Re: New development plans)

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 12:56:15 EDT

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    According to Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com>:

    > >For example, the encoding manager sits in XAP but, as other current
    > >threads attest, encoding is a fundamental part of AbiWord, and should
    > >probably sit in UT...
    >
    > I think you may misunderstand the roles of UT and XAP.
    >
    > UT = low-level utilities
    > XAP = application services used by more than one Abi* application
    >
    > Thus, in theory the UT stuff would be usable without any XAP or AP logic,
    > although to date nobody has wanted to.

    UT* stuff should not depend on GUI stuff. For UNIX that means no
    dependency over GTK. glib is Okay.

    > In practice the line between the two can seem a bit arbitrary. However, in
    > principle the UT library should stay lower-level, whereas the XAP modules
    > are a lightweight framework for doing native GUI applications (AbiWord,
    > AbiCalc, AbiShow, etc.).
    >
    > Would moving the encoding stuff down to UT make standalone use of that
    > library more useful for someone right now? If not, it seems like an awful
    > lot of work and confusion.

    Encoding should have a large part into XAP. One of the reasons is that
    encoding should provide real glyph remapping like Mozilla does. We
    should also write real XAP font management (currently it is a real
    mess, and I discover that with the Mac port as each platform seems to
    go its own way).

    Hub

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