Subject: Re: 0.7.12 for Monday?
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 10:00:22 CST
Let me amend my statement: this happens only on the screen, not when
printing (at least via gnome-print).
Dom
>From: "Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod@hotmail.com>
>To: msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au
>CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: 0.7.12 for Monday?
>Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:51:55 EST
>
>Not entirely show-stopper but...
>
>Using smart-quotes has given me the question marks (?) instead of good
>looking quotes or even the normal quote characters (' and ") for the last
>couple of weeks.
>
>Dom
>
>>From: Thomas Fletcher <thomasf@qnx.com>
>>To: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
>>CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>>Subject: Re: 0.7.12 for Monday?
>>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:42:37 -0500
>>
>>On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>>
>> > HI everyone,
>> > Should we shoot for a 0.7.12 release on Monday? I'll undebug
>> > lists, fields and tabs (if they're not already). I guess we would want
>>to
>> > finsih off chinese support for 0.7.12 too. Is this feasable?
>> >
>> > In any case our new features include:
>> >
>> > WML import/export
>> > HTML import
>> > docbook import/export
>> > Russian support
>> > Chinese support
>> > tabs
>> > fields
>> > lists
>> > dynamic zoom
>> > gnome-print
>> > GAL for gnome build
>> > Non english spell checking on RedHat 7.0
>> > lots of bug fixes
>> >
>> > Have I left anything out? Are there any show stopper bugs?
>> >
>> > Thats more than enough for a release I think and Dom and I want to
>>serious
>> > break the gnome build to get really cool features in place for the
>> > gnome-1.4 release. So lets this out to our users now.
>> >
>>
>>I'm all for this ... it co-incides with the next planned
>>RTP (QNX/Photon) patch so it would time in well with that.
>>
>>Still to be discussed is the future loss of SourceGear
>>as an AbiWord support hub (ie with the build farm,
>>cvs servers & cvs tools etc). I know that Sam had
>>at one point presented a different model for binary
>>releases (I think he did anyway) ... do we want to
>>take a dry run at this with the 0.7.12 release?
>>
>>In addition to this, as a platform parity attempt, it
>>would be nice to have a small test matrix that people
>>testing the pre-release binary distributions could
>>check against to make sure that features aren't left
>>out. This would be a scaled/pruned down of the larger
>>system matrix which I think that Bob has for testing.
>>Even if we don't fix the discrepancies, they would
>>at least be highlighted for the next release.
>>
>>Thoughts? Comments?
>>
>>Thomas
>>-------------------------------------------------------------
>>Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
>>thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
>>(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
>>
>>
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