On 7/10/07, Michael Bischof <michael-bischof@dv-kombinat.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 30. Juni 2007 20:48 schrieb Thomas Leonard:
>
> Hallo everybody,
>
> may be I am wrong here as I am no developer but a simple user!?
> I try to use Abiword 2.4.5 here with 0install - and I got even the German
> language edition. Fine. But that is not sufficient. This program needs
> urgently certain plugins. The most important one enables Abiword to import
> and export odt-files - and this is the ,,strategic'' importance of Abiword!
> It is the only program with a small footprint that can do that.
> The alternatives are
> - to install OpenOffice
> - to use Internet applications like the former writely - but then ons has to
> login or subscribe!
>
> What I ask you, the developers, is to prepare something that makes it easy to
> get those plugins for Abiword (plus: a way how to apply foreign language
> packages!).
Hi Michael,
To be honest, I don't know much about AbiWord or its plug-in
mechanism. In fact, the Zero Install feed just fetches and unpacks the
existing Autopackage archive, which is the latest one listed on the
AbiWord site.
The purpose of the feed is to demonstrate that you can use Zero
Install to provide automatic updates and digital signatures for
Autopackages.
As far as I know, the AbiWord developers don't provide a feed
themselves at the moment.
I've CC'd their -dev list; perhaps they can suggest how to provide
these plugins. If the plugins are available as separate bundles and
located using an environment variable ($ABIWORD_PLUGIN_PATH or
something) then of course it's quite easy to include them, although
making them optional could be trickier...
-- Dr Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1Received on Tue Jul 10 23:10:30 2007
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