Re: abicollab/win32 why not use libabiword-builder?

Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> i've seen that you lamented the complexity of the win32 build system
> on your weblog, wrt porting abicollab. If you'd like to make your life
> easier just use the new buildsystem "libabiword-builder" from the
> beginning. I'm serious about merging it to the main tree soon. The
> only missing pieces are
> * optional printing, spelling, embedded stuff
> * cocoa support
> * porting the remaining plugins over (infrastructure for building
> plugins with libabiword-builder is in place).
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
I will consider it, and will probably attempt it soon. My
qualifications are:
 - no regressions (I'm a tough one :-P )
 - must be buildable on Windows (I saw libabiword-builder handles
cross-compiling, but I really only care about native at this time due to
packaging) with free (and Free) components
 - must easily integrate with our NSIS install scripts (or some suitable
replacement, if deemed necessary)

I suppose I don't know enough about the premise and function of
libabiword-builder at the moment to really evaluate it. I know for a
long time (actually until like a week or two ago) on Windows we used
abiword.exe and a very large abiword.dll (a shared object file/dynamic
link), and my impression is that libabiword-builder is another way of
doing the same thing, but I don't really know. I would appreciate some
elaboration on the how and why of libabiword builder, personally.

My lamenting is nothing serious - really, I was just justifying to
myself and the world how fixing the Psion plugin was useful in the
overall SoC scheme of things :D I don't have a lot of experience with
non-gui build systems (yes, bad me, poor discipline), and so my
relatively small experience with the windows diving make build rather
outshadows my auto*-fu at the moment, though I can appreciate the
arguments that perhaps I should change that.

Thanks for your work and I'd appreciate any additional details about
libabiword-builder that could be helpful in improving my understanding!

Ryan
Received on Wed May 30 00:58:13 2007