Re: [Inkscape-devel] Joining GNOME Office
- From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
- To: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
- Cc: Bryce Harrington <bryce osdl org>, Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>, Inkscape ML <inkscape-devel lists sourceforge net>, Gnome Office <gnome-office-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Joining GNOME Office
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:07:03 +0100
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 09:47 -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:33:54AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >
> > First, we have historically striven to avoid adding dependencies that
> > are not common on a wide range of platforms. Of course, this means that
> > we often cannot make use of the latest and greatest enhancements
> > available, but on the other hand it makes life much easier for our
> > users. What is the GNOME Office's stance on the issues of dependencies
> > and portability?
>
> At present there are two libraries associated with gnome-office, and
> one more is on the way.
>
> - gnome-db/gda : glib, libxml2, libxslt
> - libgsf : glib, libxml2, bzip2, zlib
>
> All of these are available on all relevant platforms. The new
> libgoffice that is under development currently pulls gtk and
> libgnomeprint into the stack. libgnomeprint is purely glib, and
> should not be a problem, although it could use some platform specific
> printing backends. gtk will likely cause some consternation
> depending on your cross platform strategy.
>
libgnomedb adds a libgnomeui dependency. It could probably be removed,
if there is concern about it. I don't remember right now exactly what
things are pulled from libgnome/ui, but most could probably be replaced
with GTK.
cheers
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