Re: ATTN: intent to release 1.1.0 based on CVS HEAD

From: ericzen (ericzen@ez-net.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 21:21:17 EDT

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    On 2002.09.06 17:40 Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > > C) Uwog said "invoke the wrath of dom." I originally said, "*at the
    > > risk of invoking the wrath of dom," then changed it to my new
    > > favourite running gag, "*at the risk of invoking 'AbiWord II: The
    > > Wrath of Dom'."
    >
    > /me pokes EAZen in his characteristic "ever not-so-subtle way"
    >
    > > D) Will there be a source option with all plugins included? That
    > > would be "boffo good!"
    >
    > That would be hella sweet. Or at least some mondo-large plugin packs.
    > Some plugins have limited usefulness, large external dependencies, or
    > both, and as such should not be redistributed.
    >
    > > E) ACK! GNOME IS DEAD! HE SAID IT AGAIN! (yet, if you're using
    > > gtk<anything>, you're using glib...)
    >
    > Perhaps *Gnome-libs* is not so dead as I once thought, but it's not
    > overwhelmingly important any more. Most of the more useful bits are in
    > GTK+ and friends now, and I still stand by that statement. That said, I
    > plan for us to have a GNOME port by Abi version 2.0. It will have:
    >
    > 1) GNOME About dialog
    > 2) GNOME URL opener instead of our hackish browser auto-detection
    > 3) Bonobo control for Abi, like 1.0.2 did
    > 4) Gnome Print (this may be made a requirement for the GTK+ build too)
    > 5) *Maybe* Bonobo container, so we can embed apps
    > 6) *Maybe* GConf
    > 7) *Maybe* a nautilus view
    >
    > All things considered, our GNOME2 port will only involve a few ifdefs
    > and a few additional files, instead of the massive beast that the gnome
    > 1.4 port was.
    >
    > Dom
    >
    >

    Perhaps plugins should be seperate from the main abisource if they require something abi doesn't use.
    Maybe an independent tarball with the standard information, the readme listing individual plugins or needs.
    For now, just a superball containing the individual packages (not centralized into a single "select and compile" script).

    So...GNOME not dead? Careful...your QT reputation is weakening ;-)

    moi

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