[Sugar-devel] Write bundled with Sugar 0.97.8 fails to start and tells "Could not find any typelib for abi"

[Gonzalo Odiard]

The problem is not Write, but Abiword, because we need a few patches under
review right now.
The gtk2 branch is origin/sugar-0.94 in Write and is available.

Gonzalo

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can we put links to the upstream bugs/patches (not to the rpms)
> somewhere? In a README file or something. Right now if you want to
> build Write on anything else than Fedora 18, you have no idea how to
> do it.
>
> Also a gtk2 branch would be nice to have since the gtk3 version will
> not work on Ubuntu, for example. I would switch sugar-build to it
> until the patches are upstreamed and shipped in distros.
>
> (For what it's worth I think this is the only case where keeping gtk2
> on master and making a gtk3 branch would have made more sense, but I
> suppose it's too late for that)
>
> On 21 October 2012 19:49, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Part of the changes needed by touch interaction has not be reviewed yet
> > upstream,
> > and will not be ready for the next release. The plan is use a custom rpm
> > now,
> > and try to have the needed changes included asap to use a standard fedora
> > rpm.
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Has the patch been submitted upstream yet?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sunday, 21 October 2012, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Can you check the version of the Write activity you are using?
> >>> If the version is >= 80, is a gtk3 version, and only will work
> >>> with the last abiword version, in fact, we are using a patched version
> >>> and you download it here
> >>> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1205046
> >>>
> >>> Gonzalo
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Coltivare Fiori
> >>> <coltivarefiori at connettivo.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello to everybody!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Attempting to understand spellchecking in the Write Activity, I've
> been
> >>>> compiling Sugar 0.97.8 on a standard Fedora 17 installation (after
> some
> >>>> issues with the proposed updates and reverting to a clean install).
> >>>>
> >>>> After launching Sugar with "make run", I cannot start the Write
> activity
> >>>> and I get in the Write log an error
> >>>>
> >>>>         "Could not find any typelib for abi"
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been installing, besides pyabiwor, pyabiword-devel
> >>>> (0.8.0-8.fc17.i686) but to no avail.
> >>>>
> >>>> What am I missing? Shall I recompile Sugar?
> >>>>
> >>>> TIA
> >>>>
> >>>> Ernesto
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Daniel Narvaez
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
>
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