Re: Joining GNOME Office

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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