Re: gnumeric not using Bonobo

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:35:21AM -0700, Robert Lopez wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003  Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
> > Definitely.  While we'll continue to support a CORBA binding for
> > Gnumeric (although the api will change) graphing will not be via
> > CORBA and will have absolutely nothing to do with Bonobo.
>
> Is it that graphing will not involve Bonobo?
Graphing will not require bonobo.

> Or is it that Gnumeric will not involve Bonobo?
Bonobo support will split into 2 parts.

1) compile time support for creating a bonobo component of gnumeric.
2) an optional plugin for embedding bonobo objects in gnumeric.

> Is all well with Bonobo or does this signal there is a fundamental
> flaw in Bonobo? If so, how will that affect the goals for Gnome 
> office which are being/to-be provided by Bonobo?

I consider the use of bonobo for graphs a failed experiment.  That
does not mean that bonobo in general is a failure.  It definitely
has uses in specific niches, I just haven't found them in gnumeric.
Quite likely embedding abiword in gnumeric or vice versa is a viable
use case.  However, supporting a win32 build of gnumeric is a higher
priority than using bononbo, so I'm not rushing to extend the
support.