Two new hard deps: gcrypt and redland

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 15:51:08 EDT 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Heads up about dependencies being added to AbiWord.
>

Isn't this just relevant to Windows?

-walter

> cjl
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: J.M. Maurer <uwog at uwog.net>
> Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Two new hard deps: gcrypt and redland
> To: Ben Martin <monkeyiq at users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: abiword-dev at abisource.com
>
>
>
> Sounds good to me. I'll make gcrypt an official dep tomorrow for our
> Win32 build, and redland soon after that I think.
>
> Awesome hacking,
>  Marc
>
> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 10:08 +1000, Ben Martin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   As new dependencies might have wider impact I thought I would write
>> the list with some info from IRC.
>>
>>   Apparently the windows build already depends on gcrypt. The plan is to
>> remove the HAVE_GCRYPT and make gcrypt a hard dependency. gcrypt is
>> currently used to allow encrypted ODF files to be read. In the future I
>> hope the use of gcrypt can extend to include other privacy and tamper
>> protections.
>>
>>   The redland stack is also on the cards to become a hard dep. Redland
>> is used for some RDF processing and is already shipped with the windows
>> build. I have compiled redland for the n810 in the past. So smaller
>> devices should also be fine with this dependency.
>>
>>
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