Re: RFC: LibAbi

>
> Hi,
>
> LibAbi is a pet project to create a gtk widget that provides AbiWord's
> editing capabilities in a shared library. Instead of building my proof
> of concept code with fjf's great plugin build system i hacked a
> standalone version. It's a quick and dirty solution that statically
> links all abi's .a files with the glue code and the test application.
> For the moment this is enough for me to get on with coding, things
> might improve after the 2.4 release because then i can change abi's
> build system to use libtool for building a shared lib of the main
> codebase as suggested by Dom.
>
> Longer term plans (apart from building a .so) are
> + create a nice c api for the widget
> + create c bindings for the most important abiword classes so the
> widget and auxiliary stuff can be used in gobject manner.
>
> Blue sky plans (more like chances for other devs):
> + Eventually make the c bindings buildable as a plugin, so plugins have a
> c api
> + Eventually create language bindings of the gobjects
> + Eventually create a plugin loader for plugins written in the binding
> languages
>
> Code: http://www.abisource.org/~rob/tmp/libabi.tgz
> Patch to HEAD: http://www.abisource.org/~rob/repo/patches/abi-widget.diff
>
> Build:
> 1) get abi HEAD into abiword/abi/
> 2) patch it
> 3) build gtk-only version in abiword/abi-gtk/
> 4) unzip libabi.tgz, you'll get abiword/libabi/
> 5) build it
> 6) run abiword/libabi/anthill/anthill
>
> "anthill" is the test app for the binding. The name means "pile of
> bugs" and is courtesy of fjf.
>
> Right, the request:
> It would be cool if you would allow this stuff into cvs as a peer
> directory of abi/. Please fight out naming issues with uwog, i don't
> care if it's called libabi, libabi-gtk or whatever.
>
> Thanks for helpful comments,
> - Rob
>

Hi Rob,
       This is very cool. You have my full support.

Cheers

Martin
Received on Mon Jun 6 23:36:14 2005