RFP: curlgal (was Re: libgal.so.7)

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 07:38:20 EDT

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    I'd like to propose making GAL a module that is loaded at run-time. If
    AbiGal.so is not found on the local system, we use a modified version of
    Gabriel's curlhash downloader to download AbiGal.so from SourceForge (or
    mirror) to ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord/modules.

    Of course, this will require significant modifications to the AbiWord
    source and AbiGal.so will have to supported for all GNOME platforms
    (solaris, HP, *BSD, Linux x86 & PPC) but I think this is doable within the
    1.2 timeframe.

    One additional benefit of this approach will be that alternative
    application libraries could be used instead with zero effort.

    Regards, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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