Re: Nice to meet you and let's work!

Hi Fabiano,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano@fidencio.org> wrote:
>
> Howdy!
>
> Firstly, I'm Fabiano Fidêncio, a simple brazilian student that want
> mix work and fun!
> I appeared in the #abiword channel a week ago interested in one
> possible GSoC's propose.
> So, I talked, mainly, with Martin Sevior and I got to meet another
> great guys in the channel. :-).
>
> Backing to my GSoC's propose. I'm interested on fix/improve OS X GUI.
> What's my motivation? Simple, I'm a AbiWord user when I'm using Linux
> and, in the last week, using Mac OS, I tried using AbiWord and I could
> note that it's outdated when compared to Linux package. Okay. I got
> the source from SVN, read the docs and wiki to build and ... docs and
> wiki are outdated. With a bit of work I could build the latest SVN on
> Mac and, now, I can use AbiWord here ... but not so much. AbiWord, for
> now, is able to create and save documents, but can't open another any
> document :-(
>
> So, after this, I really think that we can do a great work to improve
> and sane AbiWord to run on OS X.
>
> Now, the most important reason of this mail.
> Can I update docs (and wiki) info about how to build AbiWord on Mac?
> Or is better if I postpone it and update only when AbiWord is running
> without crashes?
> In the first case, could someone give me access to edit Wiki? Can I
> change the configure.ac to check for all compile dependencies of
> AbiWord?

Are you looking at 2.4.x source code? As in trunk we don't have configure.ac.

Development activities (including GSoC projects) mostly happen in
trunk (branches off trunk for GSoC projects). So I would encourage you
to check out a copy of trunk and see what's missing there for a Mac
release.

If you feel anything needs to be modified in the source code, feel
free to send a patch to this list. People would happily reivew it.

>
> For now, is it! And if you want to know a little more about my person
> and/or my free software contributions, please, ask me in #abiword. (My
> nickname is fidencio)
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio
>

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Xun Sun