Re: GMAE build for libgsf

Oops - the missing context:

Le lundi 28 mai 2007 à 23:02 -0300, Eduardo Lima a écrit :

> > Hi list,
> >
> > As you all know, for the last two years I've been maintaining the port
> > of Gnumeric and its dependencies for the Maemo[1] platform. I must say
> > here it's being useful for many people and the users are very much
> > satisfied with it.
> >
> > With the recently lauched GMAE[2] initiative, we now have a clear
> > picture of which GNOME components are being used in products based on
> > the mobile platform, such as Maemo, OLPC[3], OpenMoko[4] and Poky[5].
> >
> > The libgsf port for Maemo is making use of gsf-gnome package, but only
> > the gnome-vfs bits and getting rid of bonobo related files from the
> > build manually. This is far from the ideal scenario, in which we
> > should have some magic in configure.in to figure out the correct
> > dependencies.
> >
> > I've been thinking about it and I'd like to hear your opinions of
> > which should be the best and correct approach to get it done. My
> > initial idea is to keep the gsf-gnome as it is and create a new
> > directory called gsf-gmae which referenced the source files from
> > gsf-gnome and would generate a libgsf-gmae library including only the
> > gnome-vfs stuff.
> >
> > Another solution would be to include the necessary checks for bonobo
> > in configure.in, and continue generating libgsf-gnome this time
> > without support for bonobo.
>

On 5/29/07, Jean Bréfort <jean.brefort@normalesup.org> wrote:

> >
> > Do we still need bonobo support on any platform?
> > Cheers,
> > Jean
> >
>
With the help of some grep commands in gnumeric and goffice code, you
can see there is not a single call of gsf/bonobo related functions.

-- 
Eduardo de Barros Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
eblima@gmail.com
Ryan Pavlik 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
>