Subject: Re: Abiword for Macintosh
From: Bryan Prusha (bryanp@wolfram.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 09:36:40 CST
At 3:01 -0600 2/7/00, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>According to crawford@goingware.com <crawford@goingware.com>:
>
>> While I can certainly attest to the fact that PowerPlant is a quality
>>API and is real
>> nice to work with, it is not free software, and I don't think you want
>>you want the
>> entanglement of having to link all that commercial code into your
>>copylefted
>> product.
>
>RMS told that accoring to the GPL it is OK since it is provided with the
>compiler and is available as source code.
>
>However, I think that the problem with PowerPlant is that it is evolving
>continuously and may break in future revision. This is constraining IHMO.
>
>> Also it is highly Mac specific.
>
>For the Mac port, it is NOT a problem.
>
I think the problem here wasn't that it will only work on Macintosh
(which is of course the point) but that the object oriented nature of
PowerPlant is very different then writing to the base API of any platform
which may cause problems with the current structure of AbiWord. Meaning a
Mac specific solution may actually cause added cross platform trouble. That
was my interpretation. As for evolving continiously, yea, that'd be a
problem. Also, I didn't realize PowerPlant was shipped with source. And,
even if it ships with the compiler, it doesn't ship with the free compilers
available for download. One has to shell out money for PowerPlant.
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