Re: Moving some plugins back into the main tree?

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 11:07:46 CET

> If we decide to do this, it can be done on a case-by-case basis. I'd
> initially only suggest moving imp/exp plugins that:
>
> *) Are fairly robust/mature
> *) Don't have any external dependencies that AbiWord doesn't already
> have
> *) And are commonly used
>
> I think that this amounts to:
>
> *) OpenDocument
> *) DocBook

Sounds good. Note that we should tweak our directory layout a bit for
this, as OpenDocument is almost a project in itself for example.

> *) The Win32 native graphics plugin

didn't I already un-plugin-ize this a while ago?

> with the possibility of:
>
> *) WML
> *) XSL-FO
> *) OpenWriter
> *) StarWriter

XSL-FO: yes, rest: "don't care" ;)

> This can also be seen as a packaging issue. If (for example) the ODF
> plugin was always distributed in the installers, I might not consider
> this to be an issue. It wouldn't matter if it was a plugin or builtin,
> so long as it was installed.
>
> What do ya'll think?

agreed++

Marc
Received on Thu Jan 4 11:08:01 2007

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