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

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Xun Sun <xun.sun.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 note that it's outdated when compared to Linux package.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 wiki are outdated.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.

Sorry, configure.*in*.
I saw one thing and typed another, so sorry for the confusion.

>
>> 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.

Okay, I'm from Brasil, GMT+3 and I'm (fidencio) always online on IRC :-)

>
>>
>>>
>>> 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!

Thanks!

>
>> Many thanks and nice to meet you :-)
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> --
>> Fabiano Fidêncio
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & regards
> Xun Sun
>

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Fabiano Fidêncio