abiword

[Jon Ciesla]

Adam Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:00:43AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>   
>> Abiword is currently broken in f16/rawhide due to the retiring of
>> link-grammar (a FTBFS retiree). 
>>
>> This is currently breaking the Xfce, LXDE, and soas spins. 
>>
>> Would someone be interested in reviving link-grammar and possibly
>> helping out updating/maintaining abiword? 
>>
>> I've also sent email to the abiword maintainer, but they haven't
>> commited to abiword in almost a year. Others have been fixing it. ;( 
>>
>> I'd guess the next steps would be: 
>>
>> * update link-grammar and get it building/working.
>> * submit a review for it and get it back in. 
>> * update abiword and rebuild to use that version of link-grammar. 
>>
>> kevin
>>     
>
>
> 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.)
>
> Also, I think with the new compression on the Live images all the spins
> have the spare space for LibreOffice.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> -AdamM
>   
I'd like to see abiword stick around, my $0.02.

-J

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