Re: Plug-in development documentation & build instructions

Hi Andrew,

I recommend getting the code from SVN:

http://www.abisource.com/developers/download.phtml

Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way of formal plugin
documentation. The existing plugins cover a decent spectrum of
functionality, and are useful as a reference. If you have questions or
just want to chat us up, you can always stop bye on IRC:
irc://irc.gnome.org/#abiword

Cheers,
Dom

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Andrew Buza <apt.buza@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm interested in integrating abiword with some other software by
> writing an abiword plug-in and I'm having some trouble getting
> started.
>
> I'm working on MS windows at the moment, but plan on building whatever
> plugin I might create on MacOSX in the future. I've downloaded the
> source for the 2.6.0 release from SVN, but the build documentation
> references a CVS server. I've looked at the files on CVS but they
> don't appear to have been updated for years. I'm assuming everything
> has switched over from CVS to SVN; is that the case? If so, are there
> updated build instructions somewhere? I downloaded MinGW and gave
> building it a try without success.
>
> Beyond that, is there any information for "3rd party" developers
> writing plugins? There is the class/API documentation, but nothing
> specifically about plugins. It looks like the ones distributed with
> abiword give a good starting point anyway, but if there's more
> information out there I might as well make use of it.
>

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