Re: AbiWord 3.next release plans

On 21/11/15 04:51 PM, Sam P. wrote:
> Hello Hubert,
>=20
> (Sorry about the reply formatting, I saw this post on the archive and I
> suppose this is how to reply to things)
>=20
>>  Proposal:
>>  -I'd like to deprecate the collab plugin: for AbiCollab, we don't hav=
e
> the server. For the other protocol, we can't maintain them. Deprecation
> would go by only allowing explicitely building it. I already had to dis=
able
> the code based on GNUtls api breakage.
>=20
> I contribute downstream to Sugar and we use AbiWord in sugar because of=
 the
> awesome AbiCollab plugin.  Specifically, we use the sugar backend (whic=
h
> uses dbus), and then manage all the dbus over telepathy things from our
> side.
>=20
> It seems to work great, so I suppose that is a testimony to your good
> maintainership.  If it's needed, I'm interested in getting involved to =
make
> sure that this plugin stays on.

For starter, the plugins is now disabled if you have gnutls >=3D 3.4 sinc=
e
it has been using deprecated TLS APIs that are now gone. See revision 351=
19
   http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D13742

Also I'm in the process of cleaning up some internals in AbiWord (mostly
getting rid of legacy containers) which mean that I might have to fix
plugins at the same time. I can't build AbiCollab anymore so it might
not get done and the plugin might stay broken.

Now if you want to submit patches to keep things alive, please, do.
Several options can be evaluated. Ditching some backends, for example.


Hub