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

[Daniel Narvaez]

Hi,

I know it's not Write. But Write has an undocumented dependency on a
certain Abiword version plus not yet up streamed patches.That's very
developer unfriendly. How am I'm supposed to pull the sources and get it to
work? That normally doesn't require subscribing to a mailing list and
asking.

Activities has an implicit dependency on the sugar platform. But we don't
have any good definition of what that platform is. I'm going to write  a
separate proposal about that, but, until the problem is solved, I think
documenting the Abiword dependency in Write is much better than nothing.

About the branch. According to

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GTK3/Porting#GIT_conventions

"We've agreed that the GTK3 version should be in the master branch on
gitorious.sugarlabs.org. The GTK2 version should be in a branch called
gtk2."


Is that changed? Otherwise can we please keep as much consistency as
possible? It's a bit of pain to find the branch you want for activities
right now.

Thanks.

On Wednesday, 31 October 2012, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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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>> 'Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org');>
>> >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Daniel Narvaez
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Narvaez
>>
>
>

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Daniel Narvaez
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