Re: A few more cast cleanups

From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 17:16:11 EST

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    Here's an attempt:

    http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/PluginMatrix

    Looking for comments / suggestions, maybe first on the format, although
    trying to enter some real (or correct) data may point out problems to
    be addressed.

    Randy Kramer

    On Friday 07 March 2003 07:29 am, F J Franklin wrote:
    > >>> Perhaps we need a webpage with plugin descriptions and
    > >>> usability...
    > >>
    > >> Sounds like a good idea to me. KOffice has a nice example IMO:
    > >> http://www.koffice.org/filters/1.2/index.phtml
    > >
    > > AbiWord has plugins for more than just import / export filters?
    > > (Assuming that is so, can they be categorized on some basis --
    > > maybe have a table for import / export filters and separate tables
    > > for other categories of plugin?)
    >
    > The two basic categories are (1) imp/exp filters, and (2) tools - the
    > latter being somewhat ambiguous. The third category is really "other
    > stuff", the "svg" & "referee" projects being code examples more than
    > anything useful, the "html" being half-baked in STABLE and disabled
    > completely now in HEAD in favour of the "xhtml" importer plugin
    > (which is really an HTML importer and/or a Multipart [X]HTML
    > importer)
    >
    > - so it can get quite messy.
    >
    > > Hmm, and I guess some (one) worked for like 1.0.2 but not 1.0.3
    > > (the one mentioned in this thread that was not compiled for the
    > > latest stable -- so the table should deal with that as well.
    >
    > sometimes the problem is with dependent libraries, whether
    > libAiksaurus is the old GTK+-1.2 version or the new (and possibly
    > broken) GTK+-2.0 version - who's in charge of aiksaurus these days
    > anyway?
    >
    > > Are they all available from one location, or do we need a column in
    > > the table to specify where (URL) to get the plugin?
    >
    > Most available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword but old
    > versions are generally hidden.
    >
    > Have fun,
    > Frank
    >
    > Francis James Franklin
    > F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
    >
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