Re: Plugin interface questions

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:51:33PM +0100, Laurent Guerby wrote:
> > b) The python specific aspects of things.
> >     The web page you site you mention is a good overview.  You
> >     should note that the function name is _not_ magic.  It is
> >     specified in the plugin.xml file (or the plugin.xml.in if you
> >     want things translated).
>
> That's not the way I read the code, python.so has
> someconfdir/gnumeric_startup.py
> hardcoded, and this file has $HOME/.gnumeric/rc.py hardcoded.
> Only python.so is in the XML.
>
> But there seem to be multiple python plugin architecture
> only the old one seems documented.
>
> Looks easy to improve things here :).

Sorry I should have been more specific.  gnumeric/src/python has
been removed in the development series.  The primary interface is
now in gnumeric/plugins/python-loader.
 
> > The main changes between 1.0.9 and 1.0.12 related to working around
> > libxml1 breakage with non-ascii characters.  You may want to update
> > when you start putting french text into spreadsheets.
>
> Everything is english, as I said it's used worldwide (but it would
> be nice that our Tokyo guyes can enter their stuff in Japanese :).
 
That is going to require 1.1.x.  The 1.0 series is just not suited
to real work with multibyte encodings.

> We do custom graph modules for advanced stuff but it would
> be nice to have an equivalent of Excel standard graphics there.

Excel is the bare minimum of functionality that we must support.
That is the sole item delaying the next stable release.  Thankfully
work has begun and I hope to have some visible results soon.
 
> The last time I compiled GNOME stuff was a few years ago and it was
> quite an adventure at the time :). I'm aware that there is
> now documentation and scripts, any pointers on up to date
> and usable docs/tutorial/scripts?

jhbuild or garnome have both made the process much smoother.  Either
will suit your purposes.