On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:07:36PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
Would an option be to just retire abiword? Its slowly gotten less useful in most cases because it doesn't handle formats near as well as it once did (even .odt ... going from libreoffice to abiword is ... well, painful) and if upstream isn't contuning development on it is there much motivation to keep it alive? (I'm not entirely familiar with its user base so my suggestion might be heavily greated with "OMG NOES!" replies and if that's the case then by all means keep the train moving forward ... I just hate to unnessecary work done.)
I'm very certain that it's because libreoffice-writer (and more importantly, what it pulls in) is much much larger than abiword, and live CD ISOs are small.
Also, I think with the new compression on the Live images all the spins have the spare space for LibreOffice.
I'd love to see this actually happen. ;)