Re: Giving up on Abiword

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:32 -0400, John Culleton wrote:

[snip]

> When I create a new Slack partition those package not included with
> Slack have to be downloaded and reinstalled.

The joy of slack

> Unfortunately Abiword fails both of the above tests. The Powers That
> Be may assume that the Autopackage routine is the greates thing since
> jellybeans but others assume that CMake is the wave of the future and
> so on.

Well, not us; we stopped supporting autopackage. Tarballs it is for *nix
again.

> And the Abiword print routines require some fancy footwork with Gnome
> packages. It is not just a simple matter of installing a library or
> two.

libgnomeprint depends on gnomecanvas, which depends on nothing GNOME
related. So it is exactly.... 2 libraries!

I'm not sure who decided that it was OK to add a dependency on a library
that *wouldn't* drag in the whole of GNOME though, but it was a sane
decision given the lack of GtkPrint at the time... oh wait, it was me!

> If I ever get my Gentoo partition to work I may try again. I just
> wanted to let the developers know that decisions like the above limit
> your user base. OO is downloading as I write this.

So?

Marc

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Received on Thu Sep 20 17:34:45 2007