Re: Plugin System

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 00:09, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El mar, 23-09-2003 a las 03:40, Martin Sevior escribió:
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > In the case of AbiWord the plugins also serve the purpose of extending
> > the program to take advantage of the services available on the platform
> > of choice.
> > 
> > libgda is not available on Windows. By using a plugin we can provide
> > GNOME users extra functionality without having to port libgda to windows
> > and without a huge pile of #ifdefs inside abiword.
> 
> I think you are wrong. Some months ago, libgda was ported to Windows,
> perhaps it's not working 100%, but it will work soon (I'm not sure,
> perhaps it's working now).
> 
> MONO is using it and they need it working also on Windows.
> 
libgda compiles on windows, but has a few little problems still missing
to work on windows. So, it's not working yet, but if somebody puts a
little work on it, it will work. The only missing thing is to make the
build system create .dll's for the providers, instead of .so. That's the
only thing keeping it from working on windows, but so far nobody has put
any effort on fixing that.

cheers