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[Libwpg-devel] libwpg-0.1.1???

[Fridrich S. <fri...@bl...>]

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Hello, good people. It is not like there is a lot of new features added
for the while. The QA action of Sum1 made 0.1.0 quite OK, so for the
while there are not bugs reported. And also, the WPG importer in
ooo-build version of OO.o was released officially only recently, so
reports from Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse,... will start to come only little
by little. Nevertheless, there has been some work done on build system
where we are now able to cross-compile the library and the tools
completely on win32. Moreover, some fixes were needed to make libwpg
(and wpg2odg) build with the upcoming gcc 4.3. These changes are now in CVS.

Nevertheless, I was reflecting about making a 0.1.1 release to ship also
these small fixes to that different distros that use already the gcc 4.3
do not have to distribute patched versions. In the same token I was
thinking to branch the library with a branch tag STABLE-0-1-0 that would
then contain only API & ABI compatible fixes and so, HEAD could have new
features like for instance the text support... Ariya, specially you,
what is your take on this?

Cheers

Fridrich
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Re: [Libwpg-devel] libwpg-0.1.1???

[Ariya H. <ari...@gm...>]

> Hello, good people. It is not like there is a lot of new features added
> for the while. The QA action of Sum1 made 0.1.0 quite OK, so for the
> while there are not bugs reported. And also, the WPG importer in
> ooo-build version of OO.o was released officially only recently, so
> reports from Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse,... will start to come only little
> by little. Nevertheless, there has been some work done on build system
> where we are now able to cross-compile the library and the tools
> completely on win32. Moreover, some fixes were needed to make libwpg
> (and wpg2odg) build with the upcoming gcc 4.3. These changes are now in CVS.

Fantastic and thank you for that work!

> Nevertheless, I was reflecting about making a 0.1.1 release to ship also
> these small fixes to that different distros that use already the gcc 4.3
> do not have to distribute patched versions. In the same token I was
> thinking to branch the library with a branch tag STABLE-0-1-0 that would
> then contain only API & ABI compatible fixes and so, HEAD could have new
> features like for instance the text support... Ariya, specially you,
> what is your take on this?

I couldn't agree more with that.

As soon as you branch, I'd like to also fix and add few API
documentation here and there. This would not break ABI at all.

In addition, I'll prepare Perfectspot so that it's ready for its first release.

Fridrich, I saw that you're using OpenSUSE build service. I want to do
the same for building Perfectspot, however since you have your build
service nicely up and running already (even for many different
distros), would it make sense if you can try to build Perfectspot
there, and then add me (username: 'ariya') as the user of your home
project? I know it might be not that easy since it uses CMake, but I
guess it is better to have the wpg stuff consolidated in one place
rather one in yours and one in mine. What do you think?


Regards,

Ariya

Re: [Libwpg-devel] libwpg-0.1.1???

[Fridrich S. <fri...@bl...>]

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Ariya,

Ariya Hidayat wrote:
> Fridrich, I saw that you're using OpenSUSE build service. I want to do
> the same for building Perfectspot, however since you have your build
> service nicely up and running already (even for many different
> distros), would it make sense if you can try to build Perfectspot
> there, and then add me (username: 'ariya') as the user of your home
> project? I know it might be not that easy since it uses CMake, but I
> guess it is better to have the wpg stuff consolidated in one place
> rather one in yours and one in mine. What do you think?

You have been just added to my home project. Please, quality and
security first, I have a (bad) reputation to safeguard :-)

Now, the thing is easy. You just upload a tarbal and a spec file for
that package. The best would be if you tried to make a SPEC file and
build an RPM on your machine. For older distributions, one will have to
link with the KDE:Qt repository too, because we need quite recent QT4. I
will try to bug our OOo SuSE packager whether he can throw some light my
side. I don't know how busy he will be, so timeframe cannot be promised,
but will do my best.

BTW: I branched and destabilised HEAD just now :-) The good branch is
STABLE-0-1-0 and will produce libwpg-0.1.x. Head is now producing
libwpg-0.2.x and apart of the fact that it can eat all the nice food you
blog about, it can eat children and other protected species. So, consume
with moderation and precaution :-)

Cheers

Fridrich

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Re: [Libwpg-devel] libwpg-0.1.1???

[Ariya H. <ari...@gm...>]

Fridrich,

> You have been just added to my home project.

Thanks!

> Please, quality and security first, I have a (bad) reputation to safeguard :-)

I will keep this mind.

> Now, the thing is easy. You just upload a tarbal and a spec file for
> that package. The best would be if you tried to make a SPEC file and
> build an RPM on your machine. For older distributions, one will have to
> link with the KDE:Qt repository too, because we need quite recent QT4. I
> will try to bug our OOo SuSE packager whether he can throw some light my
> side. I don't know how busy he will be, so timeframe cannot be promised,
> but will do my best.

On my own machines (OpenSUSE 10.2 and 10.3), I have built the RPMs
without problem. I guess it is then a matter of uploading the files to
the build service and see whether it builds cleanly on other distros.
I'll wait until I make its first 0.1 release.

> BTW: I branched and destabilised HEAD just now :-) The good branch is
> STABLE-0-1-0 and will produce libwpg-0.1.x. Head is now producing
> libwpg-0.2.x and apart of the fact that it can eat all the nice food you
> blog about, it can eat children and other protected species. So, consume
> with moderation and precaution :-)

So, you branched it quickly :-)

While we're on that:

(1) does make it sense if we include simplified ODGGenerator (which
outputs e.g. context.xml only) also inside libwpg (so that wpg2odg is
just a thin wrapper)?

(2) Also, what is the plan regarding OOO stuff inside wpg2odg module?
Is it going to disappear because you have integrated in Novell edition
of OOo afterall?


Regards,

Ariya