Subject: Re: Test post, and a few Q's about the BeOS port..
From: Ben Hall (bhall@crosskeys.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 07:41:54 CDT
Thanks to everyone for the quick replies. This is rather sad news, but
not unexpected.
I'm moving this weekend, but after that I'll look at the source and see
if I'm up to the task. I'd love to help, and working on the BeOS front
end would be a very exciting and fun learning experience. I'm certainly
not making any commitments yet though.
Thanks a lot,
Ben
Martin Sevior wrote:
> > 2) Is it being actively developed, and by how many people? Will it be
> > getting up to speed with the other versions soon?
>
> Unfortunately not. It is rapidly falling behind the main platforms Linux
> and Windows and the QNX port has now siginifcantly more functionality. I
> don't think any work has been done on the Beos front end for at least 3
> months. We just stubbed out calls to the Beos front end for new
> functionality. It's sad :-(
>
> > My programming skills aren't as good as I'd like, but I'll try to help
> > if it's needed. I'm a 3rd yr CS student, I've been following AbiWord
> > for a long time now (I don't remember the version, but it seems like
> > well over a year..)
> >
>
> We really need someone to take up the Beos front end. Are you
> volenteering?
>
> > I keep trying to do my work reports with Abi, as it's the only WP I've
> > found that works on more platforms than I do, but it always seems to
> > fall a little short in some key areas, and I end out going back to
> > StarOffice. (locked in to their file formats.. :( )
> >
>
> Export to rtf we can read that!
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for your time, and for the great program. I hope I can
> > help,
> >
>
> Maintaining the BeOS front end would be a great help :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
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