Re: Moving plugins (Re: ATTN: Some CVS modules moved to SVN)

From: <msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 14:21:33 CEST

>
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:07 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>> Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
>>
>> >> Now, can we start moving (at least) the OpenDocument and WordPerfect
>> >> plugins to the main tree? They could still be built as plugins or
>> >> statically linked, like e.g. the MS .doc filter.
>> >
>> > I think that OpenDocument in the main tree makes a lot of sense and we
>> > should do this before the 2.6 release
>> > [http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10953]. However,
>> > WordPerfect adds an additional dependency, so I'd prefer for that to
>> > be a plugin.
>
> We can just dump all plugins in abiword (abiword/src/plugins ?), and
> just compile what can be compiled. Kill off abiword-plugins alltogether.
>

I think this is a good idea provided that the build system is integrated.

We will still need fjf's very cool nextgen.sh? How will this be integrated
with autoconf? What happens to the diving make builds in the plugins?

Can we still develp he plugins while this is all sorted out?

Cheers

Martin

> Marc
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