Re: GMAE build for libgsf

From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 04:54:26 CEST

Unfortunately, that'd break ABI compatibility. I don't know if Jody
and Morten care about that, but I do.

On 5/29/07, Eduardo Lima <eblima@gmail.com> wrote:
> After thinking about the subject a little bit more, to drop bonobo
> support from libgsf would be too radical. So I coded a small patch to
> make the support optional and attached it to bug #442205
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442205).
>
> In my opinion it's the less intrusive solution.
>
> Best Regards, Etrunko.
>
> On 5/29/07, Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > AbiWord doesn't require Bonobo, though there are various bits that it
> > may optionally use. The case mentioned below is dead code and can be
> > safely removed. Other places should live behind a conditional such as
> > "#ifdef HAVE_BONOBO". If they don't, that can be considered a bug and
> > should be fixed.
> >
> > I also wonder if it might make sense to start a libgsf backend that
> > supports GVFS in the nearish future.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dom
> >
> > On 5/29/07, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Eduardo Lima wrote:
> > > > On 5/29/07, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
> > > >> As AbiWord now uses libgsf throughout but does not require GNOME, I'm
> > > >> guessing we don't use bonobo either, though I can't say for sure.
> > > >>
> > > >> Ryan
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > I've also searched in Abiword code and found some uses of gsf/bonobo
> > > > in trunk. For example here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=+gsf_+_bonobo_+show:trg4wqb-tWM:VsNpyRefJ5w:QrqPpVgwLp0&sa=N&cd=10&ct=rc&cs_p=http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/trunk&cs_f=src/wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixApp.cpp#a0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Where you can find a call to gsf_input_bonobo_new and another one to
> > > > gsf_output_bonobo_new.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > CC'ing the AbiWord list so that I don't pretend to be more of an expert
> > > than I am.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums.
> >
>
> --
> Eduardo de Barros Lima
> INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
> eblima@gmail.com
>

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