We state right up-front on our website that:
http://www.abisource.com/developer.phtml
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We believe that the world needs a high-quality, cross-platform, Open
Source office suite, and the goal of this project is to build one.
We're very serious about the "cross-platform" part of this. While we don't
currently have the equipment or people in-house to do a BeOS port ourselves,
we've designed AbiWord with porting in mind. As Jeff points out in
abi/docs/AbiWord_SourceOverview.abw:
AbiWord is an GUI application written in C++. It currently runs on Unix
systems using X11 and the GTK toolkit and on Windows ('95, '98, NT)
using the Win32 API. A lot of time and effort has been spent to make the
source code as cross-platform as possible. As of build 0.3.0, our code
is approximately 90% cross-platform (~46.5k cross-platform and ~6.5k
platform-specific).
Anyone who's interested in doing a native BeOS port should grab the source
and take a look around. Those few places you see a unix or win
subdirectory, you'll need a beos equivalent.
Everyplace you see an xp directory, the work's already done. :-)
Paul