Subject: Re: How to build the Aiksaurus plugin?
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 09:07:44 CDT
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> > I want 09.5 to be released with the Aiksaurus plugin. Can someone
> > tell me how to build the plugin?
> >
> > The README in Aissaurus doesn't explain and doing stupid things like
> > typing "make" in directories doesn't work.
> >
> > Also is there a default location the plugin should be placed?
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I want the Aiksaurus plugin to be released *alongside* the 0.9.5 release and
> not *with* it. It'd be great to ship the plugin as a nice little binary in
> addition to 0.9.5. Michael Pritchett and I made the decision that plugins will
> go into 'getAbiSuiteAppDir()/plugins/' on both Unix and Win32, and have done
> the code to auto-load plugins on startup from that directory. On Unix, we
> might want to also scan ~/.AbiSuite/plugins/ for user-specific plugins, and
Windows can be multi user too you know.
(it would really piss me off having to install my own local copy of Abiword to run
plugins just because the admin's have made the C:\ drive Read Only. Although i
think the current implementation does allow me to specify a plugin from any
directory i want).
The directory is %windir%/Profiles/username/Abisuite/
where %windir% is usually C:\WINDOWS
( i get confused with the slashes, yaknowwhatimean)
User specific plugins will require documentation, or some sort of warning to the
neophytes that plugins in their userspace will be user specific. It would be
obscenely wasteful to have multiple users all installing their own copy of
Aiksaurus.
Later
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