Subject: Re: Feature Freeze?
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 09:19:28 CDT
Martin Sevior wrote:
>Hi David,
> I've been thinking about this too. I think we should at the very
>least call a halt to changes to abiword's UI in the very near term.
>
>So abiword won't change how it does the things it does. Regarding new
>features I know of a number of projects in varying stages of completeness.
>
>1. RTF import/export => Still need header export, Lists import/export
>needs improvement.
>
>2. TOC Dom expressed an interest in doing this.
>
>3. Perl scripting, Joaquin keeps on pumping out new and useful code here
>that will help us with plugins and embedding as well as Perl scripting.
>Maybe Joaquin could give us an update?
>
That's mostly finished. The only points that are still lacking are
keybindings, selecting new positions next a know item, and delete items.
I don't plan to implement right now the last one, but I will implement
the first & the second one asap.
In the perl scripts front there are still some work to be done:
* I should make work the XS wrappers in windows
* Finish make install (this one it's easy)
* Rationalize a bit more the exposed API.
* Make it a plugin.
But basically now it's good enough (in unix). When points 2 & 4 will be
finished, I would like to start distributing binaries and start getting
feedback from outside perl hackers.
I would also write some little & useful scripts, to make the download &
install of perl wrappers worth it (I'm taking suggestions here), for
instance a script that takes a C file and writtes in the current abiword
document with a correct indentation & colouring key words (I need
something like that for my "exposes").
>5. Plugin's, inparticular Aikasaurus. This is a really cool feature from
>Jared Davis.
>
btw, I've changed AikSaurus to make it compile with the latest changes
to the menus that I've done. I will send a patch asap.
(Can I commit directly, or should I first send a patch to Jared for peer
review?)
Cheers,
-- Joaquin Cuenca Abela e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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