Re: Buildsystem diff

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 15:29 +0200, Marc "Foddex" Oude Kotte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch makes the garble plugin a default plugin in all builds but
> Windows. By default the garble plugin does NOTHING:
> - no initialization code is executed
> - no menu items are added
> - not a single feature is added anywhere
>
> It could however be very handy to have this plugin available by default,
> so anyone who has bugs in a proprietary document can be instructed to
> garble his documents text/image content, so they can be safely uploaded
> to Abiword's bugzilla.
>
> Not committing this myself for obvious reasons.

There are way more 'useful' plugins (from a users POV) than the garble
plugin, and we don't enable those by default either.

Distributions will typically build using "--enable-plugins", which will
autodetect all plugins that can be built. I for example do that for the
official Fedora packages. In practice this means garble will be included
by default.

The reason that OpenDocument *is* included by default whatever you do,
is that we had so many complaints that AbiWord did not support the
OpenDocument format, that we decided force it upon distributors to
package it.

  Marc
Received on Sat Sep 5 15:37:30 2009