Re: Moving some plugins back into the main tree?

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:46 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: Moving some plugins back into the main tree?
>
> I'm slightly surprised you asked the question. Bundling and being as
> functional as possible by default has some tradeoffs but on balance I
> think applications that do more right "out of the box" are much more
> likely to impress users. (There have been far too many situations where
> I've had to accept the defaults, and had no option to install additional
> software or plugins. Not so much with abiword but with other programs
> too.)
>
> The minor only concern is that a few groups like PortableAbiword might
> desire a smaller minimal version of abiword but I would hope they would
> stand up and say so (especially since it was and probably still would be
> possible to cram abiword (without dictionaries) on a single floppy disk if
> you really wanted to).

There is always the compile-time-switch option if needed.

Marc
Received on Fri Jan 5 01:26:20 2007