Re: Bonobo - storage formats ...

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Sam TH wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:26:22PM -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > >   Sounds really good. Assuming that API wise ABI get bonoboized, the next
> > > step is to try to reach compatibility at the serialization level.
> > >   Did you had a look at the suggested OpenOffice XML/Zip bazed format ?
> >     
> >         This really should not be an issue addressed at the AbiWord
> > level; this is something to be addressed by the OpenOffice / Bonob guys   
> > who write bonobo storage / stream backends. This can be done totaly
> > transparently.
> >   
> >         All AbiWord should do is implement Bonobo/PersistStream, and tell 
> > the world that it supports an XML content type ( and probably an
> > application/x-word ). Then everything can be done by a Bonobo plug-in
> > storage module to turn it into a flat xml document ( or whatever ), zip   
> > it etc.
> 
> Unfortunately, this would mean that the GNOME version of AbiWord would
> be able import those documents.  So while we would be very happy for 
> the added functionality, we would still want Abi native implementations
> of those importers/exporters.  AbiWord plans to maintain its commitment
> to cross-platform functionality.  
> 

I think that unless someone comes up with an xp way of doing component
integration Real Soon Now, embedding of compoenents in Abi will be
Gnome-only thing. This makes sense since no other platform is going to
have anything like Gnome's array of components.

Martin Sevior