Re: Moving some plugins back into the main tree?

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
>
> Now that libgsf is a requirement and some of our import/export plugins
> are getting both more popular and more robust (eg. OpenDocument), I
> was wondering if we might consider moving some of the plugins back
> into the main tree. I'm concerned that we're making life more
> difficult for our users than it needs to be.

I don't see the benefit of moving them. Our user get it from
distributions or installer, that is what matter: what comes pre-build.

The advantage of having them as plugins in the development tree allow:
1/ building AbiWord alone and with a selected number of plugins.
2/ faster build-test cycles, including better modularisation. Think
about relinking AbiWord each time you want to test changes to a plugin.

Just my .02$

Hub
Received on Thu Jan 4 20:38:17 2007