Re: Moving some plugins back into the main tree?

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>> 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:
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>> *) Are fairly robust/mature
>> *) Don't have any external dependencies that AbiWord doesn't already
>> have
>> *) And are commonly used
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>> I think that this amounts to:
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>> *) OpenDocument
>> *) DocBook
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> Sounds good. Note that we should tweak our directory layout a bit for
> this, as OpenDocument is almost a project in itself for example.
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>> *) The Win32 native graphics plugin
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> didn't I already un-plugin-ize this a while ago?
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>> with the possibility of:
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>> *) WML
>> *) XSL-FO
>> *) OpenWriter
>> *) StarWriter
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> XSL-FO: yes, rest: "don't care" ;)
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>> 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?
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> agreed++
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Me Too agreed++

Martin

> Marc
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Received on Thu Jan 4 15:12:59 2007