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

Hi Fabiano,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano@fidencio.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Xun Sun <xun.sun.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 note that it's outdated when compared to Linux package.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 wiki are outdated.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.
>
> Nops. I'm looking to latest SVN.

I was just curious where you saw the configure.ac. Latest svn is good.

> Did you work on 2.4.x release from OS X?
> Which is your nick on IRC and what's your timezone?

No I did not. My main contribution is in Latex plugin for the 2.6
series. My nick on IRC is xsun but I am not a regular visitor
recently. I am from China mainland, GMT+8.

>
>>
>> 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.
>
> I did it. Compiled, and tomorrow I'll send one patch updating the docs.
> After, someone (probably I) need to update configure to check all deps
> and warn the user for any missed dep.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> I'm doing it. Unfortunately, slowly yet.

Thanks for the contribution and happy hacking!

> Many thanks and nice to meet you :-)
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio
>

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Thanks & regards
Xun Sun