Subject: AtheOS and AbiWord (was RE: "must have" packages)
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 17:47:58 CDT
At 06:38 AM 8/27/01 -0000, Sprague, IT3 wrote:
>Ok, am I just kooky, or is someone actually hacking on an AtheOS port of
>AbiWord? I've been meaning to now forever, but my AtheOS box (and my dial-up
>at home) both puked, so I haven't gotten to it. I know that Brent is working
>on Clio (still, or is that on hold?), but even with that in the works, an
>AbiWord port would be good... Lemme know if someone's already working on
>this, so I don't biff myself against the wall needlessly.
If anyone's doing an AtheOS port, they haven't told us. I just mentioned
the idea because I'd seen a story on Slashdot, liked the screenshots, and
noticed that there wasn't an AbiWord window there yet.
From what I saw, one possible issue might be AtheOS's level of support for
some of the more advanced GUI widgets that we take advantage of in our
platform implementations. However, I noticed a tab dialog class, and it
looks like there's some way to make toolbars, so that might not be so bad
after all.
Another issue might be the fact that we've never audited the XP code to make
sure that it's thread-safe (which pretty much guarantees that it isn't).
However, various BeOS hackers have figured out workarounds, so you should be
able to as well.
In any event, I'm sure it'd still be *far* less work than writing an entire
word processor from scratch. :-) The last time I checked, less than 10% of
the source required to build AbiWord was platform-specific.
Have fun!
Paul
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