Re: Abiword 2.0 win32 release

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 13:57:48 EDT

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    Hi,

    Having AbiWord 2.0 run on Win32 is a *high* priority.
    I can't stress this enough. Unfortunately, we don't
    have a whole lot of people focussing on Win32
    bugs/details/polish.

    We're not planning to release 2.0 quite yet. It will
    be soon - probably in another month or so. This should
    give you some time to straighten up things. Fix it up
    as best as you can. Fix all of the small, annoying
    bugs you can. Try to kill the larger ones as well.

    I don't expect 2.0 to be perfect by any stretch of the
    imagination. All of our platforms have bugs. This
    should be well-known and even embraced. The goal for
    2.0 isn't perfection. It just has to be more
    featureful and at least as stable as 1.0.6.

    For example, the Win32 keyboard has issues with
    inputting Unicode. The UI has issues displaying
    Unicode. This is known. 1.0 had the same limitations.
    At least we haven't regressed.

    I don't expect perfection. I do expect progress. If
    there are any major win32 issues that you think should
    block the release, please file them in bugzilla and
    mark them as blocking the 2.0 bug.

    Great work guys.

    Cheers,
    Dom

    --- Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote:
    > Hello!
    >
    > I do not know who are we targeting with versiķ 2.0,
    > developers or end-users,
    > but as you may know.
    >
    > I honestly do not think that we will have something
    > good enough to make a 2.0
    > release for win32 end-users. If we do release 2.0
    > for win32 very soon, we
    > should be clear that is a developer release, since
    > it's not good for
    > end-users. There are still many problems around that
    > make it not suitable for
    > everyday work.
    >
    > As you may have noticed, I'm very busy. I will start
    > this week filling up all
    > the bugs that I have seen (a quite a lot) and are
    > not yet in Bugzilla.
    >
    > When 2.0 is tagged, I will concentrate working on
    > the 2.0 STABLE branch until
    > we get a version (2.0x) that is good for end-users.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > --
    >
    > Jordi Mas i Hernāndez - Abiword developer -
    > http://www.abisource.com
    > jmas@softcatala.org - Softcatalā member -
    > http://www.softcatala.org
    > - Personal Homepage
    > http://www.softcatala.org/~jmas
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >

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