From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 00:37:44 EDT
--- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Eric Zen
> wrote:
>
> > One Week!?
> >
> > I was expecting more along the lines of the end of
> > September (earlier discussion involving STABLE in
> > October). Especially with printing and 1/5 of the
> > world's population unable to use AbiWord. This
> > push wouldn't be related to RH's release, would
> > it? You know, they'll just call AbiWord "Write a
> > Letter," don't you?
>
> We were thinking about releasing 1.1.0 in October
> based on HEAD, not STABLE. To be quite honest with
> you, printing is no more broken now than it was in
> 1.0.2. Chinese support is no more broken than it was
> in 1.0.2 - not to mention that this is a libiconv
> issue on Windows and technically not our problem
Actually I only guessed that libiconv is to blame
since
I don't know what else it might be. But in the past
I tested our Chinese support with libiconv and it
definitely worked. It is definitely broken now but
I'm not able to do the diagnostic testing required to
track the problem down at the moment due to lack of my
own equipment.
Nobody has responed to my request for testing on other
platforms to see if the have a similar problem when
not using libiconv.
Andrew.
> (not to mention that there are several
> perfectly good workarounds to the problem...).
> Neither of these things have regressed since 1.0.2,
> nor does it look like anyone will be fixing
> them in the short term. However, during this time
> quite a number of bugzilla bugs have been fixed as
> well as a host of others, including fixing some
> build issues for a few of the more exotic platforms.
> Add these up with user demand and we have a
> compelling reason to release 1.0.3 with all the more
> haste.
>
> > *snickers*
>
> "Write a Letter" makes sense from their perspective
> - they want to simplify the desktop in order to help
> their users. From a Usability perspective, this
> makes a lot of sense. Read the HIG suggestions.
> "Write a Letter" is much more intuitive than
> "AbiWord". What's an Abi? As for the temporal
> relativeness to the RH release, that's just an
> added bonus which may or may not bear fruit. Many
> people know that I've been wanting a 1.0.x STABLE
> series release for quite some time now, as I have
> told several people on IRC in the past month.
> Now I'm just speaking up on the ML about it.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
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