Subject: Re: does anyone want to rescue the "Hello Abi" subtree?
From: Andrew Goh (andrew@ghimmoh.lugs.org.sg)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 23:31:46 CST
hi,
I hope it could be left there, as I feel that fixing hello
(by a new abiword hacker) is a quick way to learn about the AbiWord
app framework.
Perhaps one could update the README.TXT to say that hello would not
be maintained as often as the main stem of abiword tree and is likely
to be broken & left as an exercise for the user ;)
I have indeed wondered if abi app framework may eventually be a
de-facto app framework to the Linux world much as MFC is to MS Windows.
Wouldn't it be a great idea, if '3rd party' open source developers
can develop 'snap-on' components to abi?
Cheers,
Andrew
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
> Way back when, somebody started up the following subtree to learn how to use
> the abi/src/af framework for other applications:
>
> abi/src/hello
>
> This was a cool idea, because it helped demonstrate that the app-specific
> portions of the framework could be used to build a trivial non-AbiWord
> shell application. (All it ever did was raise a new frame and print "Hello
> Abi".) At the time, I believe folks thought it might also be helpful as a
> testbed for getting new ports up and running.
>
> However, AFAIK, it never worked cleanly on more than one platform, and it
> *certainly* hasn't been maintained in a long, long time. I don't remember
> its actual demise, but the fact that nobody else missed it either is pretty
> telling.
>
> If anyone is interested in reviving and maintaining this code, please speak
> up **now**. Otherwise, I'm sorely tempted to nuke the entire directory
> sometime next Monday.
>
> Paul
> motto -- dead code should be nuked before it confuses too many people
>
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