discussion re: libgoffice scheduling

Tue May 4 22:08:49 EDT 2004

My personal feelings:

1) we don't want to use gnome cvs for multiple reasons:
   - they don't limit developer access to different modules,
   - we've already got our system set up
   - we can control our system, cvsweb, etc.

2) I think with regard to GOG that we should snapshot his code
   into once he's got something we can use, and then we just
   keep our snapshot up to date from his CVS/releases periodically
   (and make ABSOLUTELY sure to feed changes we make back up to jody)

-derek

Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:

> 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
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