Re: Autopackage forthcoming?

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Larry Alkoff wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 13:13:29 -0500
> From: Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>
> To: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
> Cc: Mark Richardson <mrichard@usc.edu>, james@resolutionit.ca,
> abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Autopackage forthcoming?
>
>
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >
> > An autopackage should be forthcoming, we haven't officially "dropped
> > support" that's for sure. AbiWord is run by volunteers, and our
> > volunteer AutoPackage-r hasn't gotten us a package of it yet. Hopefully
> > that will change soon!

> I like AbiWord but Slackware has dropped it from the next version
> expected in a few weeks. The problem was AbiWord has too many
> dependencies and is closely entangled with Gnome.
>
> His announcement:
> xap/abiword-2.2.9-i486-1.tgz: Removed. More recent versions of AbiWord
> no longer support compiling without GNOME.

That isn't exactly true. Abiword now requires libgnomeprint in all the
GTK versions, not just for the Gnome version. This is to help ensure
printing actually looks like what you see onscreen. Despite the name
gnome print does not require gnome. Also it may be possible to build
Abiword without libgnomeprint if you really want, I'm not absolutely sure
but I do think so.

> The maintainer of Slackware dropped Gnome entirely over a year ago after
> complaints that just too many complicated packages to deal with.

To put it in context Dropline Gnome was doing a better job and he chose
to let them do it and not do redundant work.

> AbiWord needs to come out with a package that includes most of the
> dependencies with the possible exception of gtk itself. If that's what
> an 'autopackage' is I'm all for it.

Autopackage should cover that yes. If you want to know more read about it
on the Autopackage website: http://autopackage.org/

As a last resort you could try using Alien to convert from RPM to
Slackware TGZ. (And if this is too difficult you might want to reconsider
if you really should be using a difficult distribution like Slackware.)
Oh and you could build from source of course.

-- 
Alan
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