Re: Plugin API

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 à 22:55 +0200, Albert Graef a écrit :
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've just finished writing a Gnumeric plugin loader for the Pure
> programming language (http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/). Works great. :)
> But I do have two issues with the plugin API which I'd like to discuss here.

I'm afraid you might have some license issue. libspreadsheet is GPL-v2
only (which is quite unfortunate, see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463248 for related stuff)
while your plugin seems to be GPL-v3

> First, building a plugin outside of the Gnumeric source tree is a bit
> awkward, because the gnumeric-config.h and gnumeric-features.h headers
> are needed to compile plugins but they aren't installed anywhere. So
> right now I have to tell users to grab and configure the Gnumerics
> sources to get these headers. Couldn't those two headers please just be
> installed so that 3rd party plugin writers can rely on them? Should be
> just a matter of changing the toplevel Makefile.am.

I don't understand why you need gnumeric-config.h, gnumeric-features.h
should be enough, and is actually needed since it is included from the
installed numbers.h, please file a bug report.

Regards,
Jean