Re: AbiWord is too buggy for Bonita

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Michael D. Crawford wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:24:15 -0400
> From: Michael D. Crawford <crawford@goingware.com>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: AbiWord is too buggy for Bonita
>
>
> Hi Again,

> > Bug reports and patches welcome.

> Um, have either of you ever actually TRIED the current release of
> AbiWord on Windows?

hrmm.

> I tried to be friendly and helpful, but I guess I wasn't being clear.
> I'm glad to supply both carefully-researched, reproducible bug reports
> and expertly written patches, but before I do, I have to have the
> expectation that taking the trouble to do so will actually do anybody
> any good.

> It had slipped my mind, in my first mail, that the reason Bonita finally
> gave up on AbiWord and switched to OpenOffice was that AbiWord crashed
> and she lost a couple hours of work.

If you had autosave turned on there would be backups created. Even if you
didn't have the autosave feature turned on, if it was abiword that crashed
(as opposed to say Windows) there should have been a .SAVED or .CRASHED
file created with virtually all your work saved in it. I'd be surprised
if that didnt happen, I'm pretty sure it worked on windows too.

> Please take my constructive criticism in the spirit in which it is
> intended. As I said, I am genuinely trying to help, not to insult or

hrrmm.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Thu Mar 17 21:25:07 2005