Subject: Re: What are we waiting on?
From: Ben Hall (bhall@scs.carleton.ca)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 20:50:32 CST
Hi,
I can get binaries ready a lot faster now that I've set up may machines,
this means:
1) Linux x86 (Debian)
2) Linux Alpha
3) Possibly FreeBSD
4) BeOS R5
5) Sparc Solaris 7
As an added bonus, I'm studying for exams until Friday, so I ought to be
more available than I have been.
Also, just so you know Sam, the BeOS R5 build looks like it works, but it
seems to hang on the splash screen. I heven't investigated this at all
yet..
I personally think that the lists are a definite sign of progress. Abi is
such a great program, it'd be a shame not to include the lists. That and
tables are all that stop me from using Abi on an almost 100% basis.
(I'll admit that I had to use word for this huge assignment, the doc ended
up being 100+ pages filled with styles, indexices, tables etc. It's a
good test doc for Abi. It opens it, but it's not 100% obviously.)
Ben
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Sam TH wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I knew that lists didn't export to RTF, but I had thought it
> > worked like HTML, where the text gets outputted in normal paragraphs,
> > just without the lists.
> >
> > What do you think about the release?
> >
>
> Hmm well we have two choices.
>
> 1. Go ahead and release now with a big warning on
> exporting to rtf and Ben Hall's bug. Follow up with a bugfix.
>
> 2. Stop the release. Fix the two bugs, then release. Given how long it has
> taken to get here, I would definately go with 1. Supporting so many
> platforms makes things really slow. Even if I get a patch together within
> an hour it will take another week before we can release.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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