Re: issue with plugins

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 19:07:00 EDT

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    According to Francis James Franklin <f.j.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>:

    > See "NOTE: Built-In Plugins" in abiword-plugins/README - it's just a
    > brief note. I will document the option (and/or remove it temporarily if
    > people prefer) in abi/docs/build sometime soon.

    [...]

    > Question: Why is it that whenever I add a configure --enable- option
    > and mark it "experimental", people feel compelled to try it out?

    Rule of thumb #1:
    never write a readme, actually nobody cares reading it

    Rule of thumb #2:
    never marke feature as experimental, it is so tempting to ry it

    Rule of thumb #3:
    there are always user. see rule #1 and rule #2.

    Hub

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