Re: Release Critical Bugs


Subject: Re: Release Critical Bugs
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 17:21:01 CST


On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Christopher Plymire wrote:
> At 07:31 PM 11/15/00 +1100, you wrote:
> >HI Sam,
> >
> > I'm not sure we need to fix rtf import/export of fields before
> >0.7.12.
> >
> >2. We could live without a new Windows List dialog if it takes too long to
> >write one.
> >
> >3. Tom Briggs says Spell check on Windows works. Can we have confirmation
> >on this?
> >
> >4. Can we get a clear description of the Smart Quotes bug? Sorry I missed
> >it.
> >
> >Whoops I just found a bad new bug. Deleting a paragraph with a list
> >element with Spelling disabled causes a segfault. I think I know the
> >problem and will fix it. My previous fix to disable spell checking caused
> >this.
> >
>
>
> >Can we get an estimated time for the QNX packaging and BeOS text flow bug
> >fixes?
> >
> >It may not be worthwhile to hold up 0.7.12 for too long to fix the BeOS
> >port.
> >
>
> I honestly can't give you an exact day/time, but it would help a lot if
> someone would
> provide some insight into which platform specific functions may be causing
> the error.
> (This has always been a problem, so it wasn't caused by anything added
> recently.)

I can't think of any parts of the line breaking code that would be in
non-XP parts of AbiWord. AFAIK, it's all in the text/fmt/xp hierarchy,
which is all XP code.

Martin, do you have any idea what might be going on here?

Thomas, any chance you could look at this?

We are real close to 0.7.12, so I would like to get this taken care
of.

Thanks

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