Re: feature suggestion

Eric W. Sink (eric@postman.abisource.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:59:44 -0600

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We'll have this kind of thing eventually. Months ago,
we did a lot of thinking/design and a little implementation
toward this. Our ideas were a bit more oriented toward
scripting extensions, and I don't think we ever seriously
considered coding any of the core features in a scripting
language. However, our enthusiasm has cooled somewhat,
preferring instead to get the core functionality stable
first. Furthermore, we had our eyes set on JavaScript
rather than Perl.

We'll get there.

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> Hi there,
> 
> I was just thinking that it might be useful (and potentially a huge usability increase) to create a facility for using plugins, preferably in Perl (since anyone knows perl) Basically, someone with good knowledge of the abiword document-internals (i.e. a abiword developer) could allow an external program to access those internals. With this in place, a great deal of work could be placed into plugins. HTML import/export is one, plus, it would make extendability by end users possible. Also, since Abiword prides itself on portability, a plugin written in Perl could easily be moved from platform to platform without any functionality issues.  
> 
> one of GIMP's major selling points has been the plugin interface, I would think a similar interface in AbiWord would definitely increase it's popularity and userbase.
> 
> Aubin
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