Re: AbiWord 0.7.10


Subject: Re: AbiWord 0.7.10
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 10:25:41 CDT


At 05:39 PM 6/16/00 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> Correct. We've had a functioning modal word count dialog since February.
>> Once the modeless changes got introduced on Unix, that broke the other
>> platforms.
>
>I pointed out this would happen well before the dialog went modeless on
>Linux. I also asked if the lack of Windows wordcount would be a show
>stopper for 0.7.10. I hope a windows programmer will step up to the
>challenge of fixing it. It is a small change to give it's old
>functionality. It will be more work to make it auto-updating like Unix.
>
>I believe that we've now taken the attitude of let's make things work on
>one platform coz it is not so hard to get them going on others.

Agreed. I just wanted to clarify any confusion stemming from Bob's summary
in the release announcement.

Paul



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