Subject: Re: Release/Tree closing
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 17:22:42 CDT
--- Dom Lachowicz <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> Mike's bug could be Win32 specific or specific to
> Mike's computer. It isn't
> reproducible on Unix. But that's beside the point.
nope, I reproduce it. I've using my sister computer,
and I've just compiled the windows version, and run a
little speed test between msword and abiword (we loose
by little, we get 92% of msword speed, but the test
was not very complete, I just wanted to get a rough
approximation).
The sad thing is that the repaint was completely
broken. It's was a major pain to use abi (I was only
seeing the first line of each paragraph, except when
you change the size of abi's window).
I vote to hold 0.9.0 until (at least) that gets fixed.
(It's *really* unusable)
> That's quite true. I hate it that Be has fallen
> behind, and the only person who
> would work on Be (Jamie) has just all-but given up.
> I dislike that win32 has
> also fallen behind. I know everyone has heard the
> story that this is a volunteer
> project and volunteers work on stuff when they can,
> etc... It's all too true. So
> at some point, sacrifices must be made.
>
> Michael Pritchett has said that he would try working
> on the styles dialog when
> he got a chance, but that was about a week ago and I
> haven't heard anything.
> Andrew Dunbar is out of touch for the next few
> weeks. I have the last of his
> work lying around in patch form on my HD waiting for
> us to branch. Thomas is
> working on the QNX dialog and I think that he's
> close.
>
> So _please_ tell me what your expectations are for
> these platforms and their
> respective outstanding bugs. I can see and close XP
> and Unix bugs. Win32 bugs
> just aren't getting filed any more. Yes, we do have
> probably more win32 users
> than any other. But win32 users are, well, win32
> users - an application crashes
> and it's "just normal". If things get buggy, they
> just don't use that program
> any more. The thought of filing a bug in a bug
> database generally never crosses
> their minds - it's just not in their nature. Is this
> a bad thing? Well, from a
> user's perspective, no. But from someone who could
> use the feedback (and without
> a "Paul Egli" ;-), this sucks.
I will take a look, but I've just used by the first
time in my live that msvc thing today, so don't expect
many things besides bugs reports.
Btw, Mike, the MSVC6 module is a bit old (at least it
didn't worked for me). I've updated the non-debug
parts so now it compiles here, but I'm a complete
newbee with these things, so maybe I've done non-sense
things (there are a couple of things that I didn't
understand, but that I've managed to make work...)
If you want a patch, just speak up. If you have an
updated version, please "cvs commit" (*pleeease* :)
Cheers,
P.S.: A 3.5kb/s speed sucks!
-- Joaquín Cuenca Abela e98cuenc@yahoo.com__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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