abiword

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 12:07:36 -0500
Adam Miller <maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> 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.)

If no one steps up to maintain it sure. Upstream is still very much
alive as far as I can see. It's just the Fedora package thats lagging. 

> Also, I think with the new compression on the Live images all the
> spins have the spare space for LibreOffice.

They might. 

kevin
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