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List:       abiword-dev
Subject:    Re: Buildsystem diff
From:       "Marc \"Foddex\" Oude Kotte" <marc () solcon ! nl>
Date:       2009-09-05 14:36:09
Message-ID: 1252161369.20674.0.camel () dsl-213-233-247-049 ! solcon ! nl
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Okay cool :) Never mind that patch then!

Cheers,
Marc


On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 15:37 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 15:29 +0200, Marc "Foddex" Oude Kotte wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patch makes the garble plugin a default plugin in all builds but
> > Windows. By default the garble plugin does NOTHING:
> > - no initialization code is executed
> > - no menu items are added
> > - not a single feature is added anywhere
> > 
> > It could however be very handy to have this plugin available by default,
> > so anyone who has bugs in a proprietary document can be instructed to
> > garble his documents text/image content, so they can be safely uploaded
> > to Abiword's bugzilla.
> > 
> > Not committing this myself for obvious reasons.
> 
> There are way more 'useful' plugins (from a users POV) than the garble
> plugin, and we don't enable those by default either. 
> 
> Distributions will typically build using "--enable-plugins", which will
> autodetect all plugins that can be built. I for example do that for the
> official Fedora packages. In practice this means garble will be included
> by default.
> 
> The reason that OpenDocument *is* included by default whatever you do,
> is that we had so many complaints that AbiWord did not support the
> OpenDocument format, that we decided force it upon distributors to
> package it.
> 
>   Marc
> 

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