I wanted to relay the following conversation I had, earlier, with Jody f/ Gnumeric regarding the split-out _from_ Gnumeric of what's being called libgoffice. It'll include stuff like toolbar foreground/background-color selection, font-selection, &c... all sorts of standard-office-app "stuff". The most important part for gnucash is, specifically, the GnomeOffice Graphing [GOG] stuff...
In summary: it looks like it'll be a while [~weeks] before the relevant code is sufficiently split out of gnumeric to be even copied into the gnucash source tree, and a while after that before the library is released, let alone started to be included in distros; he's targeting a 6/25 "release" of libgoffice. <jsled> jody: question re: libgoffice/gog. <jsled> Any 1-line status update on it? And what's the best way to monitor it's progress so I don't need to bug you. <jsled> s/.$/?/ <jody> jsled: progress is being made <jody> I've got GODocument and GODocumentControl in my tree now and have ported gnumeric to that <jody> that gives me a place to hang to plugins and importers/exporters <jody> target is to make the split for 1.4 <jody> jsled: it will include show/hide toolbar and fullscreen support to start with <jsled> jody: followup question about libgoffice. It sounds like there's a bunch of stuff in it that gnucash doesn't care about at the moment. <jsled> Frankly, we're probably going to copy the gog sources into the gnucash tree for the initial G2 port/release, anyways. <jody> jsled: there will be some things in there that it may not care about <jody> jsled: I'd ask that you not do that <jody> I'm happy to work with you to ensure we release on a schedule that is convenient <jsled> hmm. you can ask, but we're pretty serious about not depending on stuff that's hasn't been in distributions for 6-9 months. <jsled> We're currently talking about making FC1 our base/ref. platform. <jsled> Or _maybe_ making it FC2. <jsled> regardless, how long before libgoffice is going to be in out in the field? <jody> jsled: before june 25 <jody> aka guadec <jsled> Sorry ... a bit of a rhetorical question. The point being that there's no realistic alternative for our needs besides GOG, but we're hoping to get the g2 port out the door before ... <jsled> 2004.06.25 + 6m => 2004.12.25. <jsled> Now. I'm not sure that we _will_ do that, but we can only hope for the best. :) * jody scratches head <jody> At this point the code is not seperable from gnumeric <jody> It still uses the plugins and format/parsing engine <jody> both need to move down * jsled nods <jody> It is also based on gtk-2.4 * jsled nods * jody apologizes for that but there are not alot of choices <jsled> Well, so are we at this point... we've moved a good chunk of 2.4 into our source tree as well. :/ <jsled> we'd already had libegg in there, and I've moved a bit more which has showed up in gtk-2.4.0... <jody> You're going to mix 2.4 code with 2.2 libraries ? <jsled> yes. <jody> brave <jsled> heh. <jsled> What's your primary concern with copying the gog code into the gnc tree? <jsled> general in-elegance, or...? <jody> Limited developer resources <jsled> eh? <jody> bugs and api requests will definitely occur for what is basicly the first major user of the code outside of gnumeric <jody> having those appear against an out of date version <jsled> hmm. <jody> or worse, get fixed there and potentially not get upstreamed ... <jsled> yes. <jsled> point well taken; we will take care to find a way to prevent that. <jody> Where is your cvs hosted ? <jsled> cvs.gnucash.org -- private box in MA. <jody> If it's on gnome.org you could do a virtual module include <jody> svu: I'm nost sure what the question is ? <jsled> a solution might be for the developers / early testers to actually develop against libgoffice ... but then cut-off a version when we're nearing the end of our dev/release cycle. <jsled> there will undoubtedly be bugs after that, but we'd be a better position to manage the patches then. <jsled> In any case, we'll have to deal with that at some point in the future... but will keep it in mind. <jsled> jody: permission to copy this conversation to the other primary GnuCash developers? <jody> jsled: sure, and I'll extend an invitation to get cvs hosted on gnome.org <jody> which would simplify importing things easily ...jsled -- http://www.asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] # A: Because it breaks the flow of normal conversation. # Q: Why don't we put the response before the request? _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
