Re: libgsf: very preliminary patch

Robert Staudinger wrote:

>On 2/21/06, Tomas Frydrych <tf@o-hand.com> wrote:
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>>Ryan Pavlik wrote:
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>>>The new WV requires glib on Win32, and I'm fairly certain I also need to
>>>build libgsf for that as well. So for me, recent glib and libgsf in the
>>>main Win32 dist. for 2.6 is a done deal: it's necessary already.
>>>
>>>
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>Ryan, I'm aware this is outrageous, but what about using prebuilt
>libs? We in linux do that all the time (well, except gentoo *ducks*).
>Seriously, two trustable sources come to mind:
>http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net (this is what gnumeric uses if i'm
>not mistaken)
>http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html (Tor Lillqvist's stuff)
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I already use dependencies from TML and from GnuWin32 - I do not want to
make gladewin a dependency of Abi for obvious reasons, and don't want to
have to sort out what we need from what we don't in that package. I do
like gladewin, though, for GTK apps (like Divifund)

I will be building my own "prebuilt" libs and uploading them to Abi - I
document all my procedures. If I get a good libgsf build going, I will
probably send the bins to Jody on each release of libgsf, so they are
the "upstream" binaries.

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>>We also have a major problem on win32 with filenames that do not use
>>Latin1 charset; when I looked into fixing it in the past, it turned out
>>to be impossible without introducing some new UT_ I/O functions. My
>>understanding is that using libgsf will give us proper Unicode filenames
>>on win32 and I think it is better than creating yet another abstraction
>>layer of our own.
>>
>>I also agree with martin that now that we have made glib a dependency,
>>it would make sense to refactor the UT_ layer to make maximum use of it
>>and eliminate any unnecessary code of our own.
>>
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>I have been longing that day.
>This is a quick rundown of some stuff in abi/src/af/util/xp:
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>UT_Allocator: unused as suggested by grep
>ut_assert -- g_assert stuff
>ut_path -- g_path stuff
>ut_types: many things debatable since provided by glib (UT_uint8,
>...), IMO we should get rid of XML_Char at least.
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>Best,
>Rob
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Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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