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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I agree. Just we are doing changes _right_now_ and with a lot of work to do
in a fixed schedule.
If anybody is interested in help solving bugs, I will be the first in help
him,
but sadly, nobody asked...



> 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.
>
>
I don't know why Walter added that, when we have a previously agreed
convention in the same page:

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

You know "standards are so good, than everybody want own one" :)

Gonzalo




> 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>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
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> _______________________________________________
>>> >>>> Sugar-devel mailing list
>>> >>>> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>> >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Daniel Narvaez
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
>
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