Subject: Re: Paragraph symbol (and Amiga)
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 01:19:46 CDT
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:04:45AM +0100, Iain Hallam wrote:
> > Works OK with Times New Roman out of the email with Abiword 7.10 on Windows
> > 98. I thought that was a standard character anyway in quite a lot of
> > things - it was certainly prevalent on the Amiga. Thinking of which, does
> > anyone know how difficult it would be to port Abiword to one of the later
> > Amiga Workbenches? They always had an X emulation layer built in to allow
> > cross platform stuff, so it might be worth investigating whether it would be
> > possible.
>
> It would be about as difficult as a port to any other platform. Abi's
> porting strategy tends to be porting the XAP application framework to
> that platform. Unfortunately, currently most dialogs are
> platform-specific which results in a LOT of work for porters. A fringe
> port to a platform like AmigaOS would be likely to fall behind just as
> the BeOS port has.
Well, to reply to the implied criticism of our strategy here:
1) I think high-level abstraction was the way to go, rather than trying to
base everything on something like GDK. It gives us the native
look-and-feel so lacking on many other XP apps (cough*mozilla*cough).
2) BeOS is doing very well now. They are almost keeping up with Bill
Carpenter in code volume produced. :-) I think BeOS will be on track for
1.0.
3) Both the Be and QNX ports were written by one person, in fact, the same
person wrote them both. Not coincidentally, he's the only non-abisource
person in Primary Authors. So it can't be *that* hard. :-)
For Amiga specifically, if they run X properly, then GDK can be ported,
which means all of abiword too. But it would be nice to have a native
port, and maybe someone would want to work on that. I'm sure Amiga needs
a WP.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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