Re: Buildsystem diff

Okay cool :) Never mind that patch then!

Cheers,
Marc

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 15:37 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 15:29 +0200, Marc "Foddex" Oude Kotte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch makes the garble plugin a default plugin in all builds but
> > Windows. By default the garble plugin does NOTHING:
> > - no initialization code is executed
> > - no menu items are added
> > - not a single feature is added anywhere
> >
> > It could however be very handy to have this plugin available by default,
> > so anyone who has bugs in a proprietary document can be instructed to
> > garble his documents text/image content, so they can be safely uploaded
> > to Abiword's bugzilla.
> >
> > Not committing this myself for obvious reasons.
>
> There are way more 'useful' plugins (from a users POV) than the garble
> plugin, and we don't enable those by default either.
>
> Distributions will typically build using "--enable-plugins", which will
> autodetect all plugins that can be built. I for example do that for the
> official Fedora packages. In practice this means garble will be included
> by default.
>
> The reason that OpenDocument *is* included by default whatever you do,
> is that we had so many complaints that AbiWord did not support the
> OpenDocument format, that we decided force it upon distributors to
> package it.
>
> Marc
>
Received on Sat Sep 5 16:36:37 2009