Re: [opensuse-gnome] abiword-unstable

From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 23 2007 - 16:01:55 CEST

On 8/23/07, James Ogley <james@usr-local-bin.org> wrote:
>
> Hey Hub, thanks for the heads up.
>
> > I wouldn't do that. There are plan to switch to ONE tarball. And then
> > you'll have lot of user complaining that AbiWord does not support
> > OpenDocument because it is a plugin they haven't installed the
> > package.... The # of bug reports in Ubuntu just speaks for itself.
>
> Will it be a single ./configure && make && make install to build it when
> that happens or will it be like < 2.5 where we had to do abiword, then
> the plugins (and I guess then the extras now)?

You'd need to build a single RPM from abiword, abiword-plugins and
abiword-extras tarballs, which each is following autotools
conventions. FYI, extras is cliparts, dictionaries and templates
(therefore may or may not be desireable to include).

Hope that helps,
Rob
Received on Thu Aug 23 16:02:39 2007

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