I had a quick look at the source code - ssconvert describes itself as a wrapper.
It'll produce no output without GTK+; so the only way to fork & re-write alternate functions that current gtk+ provides, ie. the addition of loads of new code to code, maintain & test. This would make it more of a security concern in my opinion; a new code- base downstream that would need patches upstream (ssconvert) to be re- written & tested for this new fork. Further changes made upstream in gtk+ could mean this new 'fork' could produce different output overtime to the ssconvert gtk+ based program. This will be a lot of work to maintain. (The decoupling of gnumeric may be simpler; but again you'd be forking gnumeric code and thus creating a new maintenance problem in my opinion). The current build reduces workload immensely, is far more security-aware (code wise; far less code to maintain & test) by using the code found in gtk+ & gnumeric. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281813 Title: Allow installing ssconvert without gnome dependencies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnumeric/+bug/1281813/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
