Re: Updates on RDF in abiword

Thanks. that clarifies the question I had.

cjl

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Ben Martin
<monkeyiq@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 22:16 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Ben Martin
>> <monkeyiq@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> >  I have added a new "rdf" directory to my test suite on github which
>> > contains a number of tests to verify the RDF system;
>> > https://github.com/monkeyiq/odf-2011-track-changes-tests/blob/master/rdf/RDF.pm
>> >
>> > This uses a little bit of Perl and Expect to control AbiCommand from the
>> > suite;
>> > https://github.com/monkeyiq/odf-2011-track-changes-tests/blob/master/abicommand.pl
>> > While expect is a little bit of overkill at current, most of the tests
>> > just acsend() a command and acmatch(regex) to verify the results are /
>> > aren't as expected. Using the wrappers does add a little too, for
>> > example acsend() ensures that OK is received from AbiCommand before
>> > returning, so a test will fail if the command itself is unhappy
>> > irrespective of if it gives the desired output. On the plus side, the
>> > perl expect module brings it's nice timeout handling etc and allows for
>> > more complex interactions in the future.
>>
>> I'm curious if this is going to substantially change the footprint of
>> the dependencies for AbiWord.  The folks at OLPC are always struggling
>> to avoid including all of PERL in their images (which include AbiWord
>> on the GNOME side fo the dual-boot) because of the extreme size
>> constraints of the earlier model XO laptops (1GB total storage), and I
>> wonder what new deps this change in AbiWord is going ot pull in.
>> AbiWord should do what it needs to do to add new features and
>> functions, but I would like to make the OLPC folks aware of any big
>> changes in footprint that they might see down the road as early as
>> possible so, if necessary, alternatives can be explored.
>
> The Perl stuff is only for the test suite, which is itself separate to
> abiword. Nothing I've added to abiword itself requires or optionally
> uses perl.
>
> There are some new optional dependencies, redland being the major one.
> The others are just for handy desktop candy like drag and drop to RDF.
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 9 23:28:50 2011