Subject: Re: installation on slackware
From: Albert Wagner (alwagner@tcac.net)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 18:38:57 CST
Hi, Dom. Obviously, you didn't read the text of mine that you quoted
below. I DID download the tarballs. It takes considerably longer than
15min on a 56K modem with a slow connection; Longer in fact than the
slackware package and the generic binary. The tarballs, about 6 of them,
were all incorrectly built. Or I would have compiled. Rather, as it
stands right now, I can't get there from here. I have in the past
downloaded and installed abiword, then erased it because basic features
were still missing. Abiword probably holds the record for the open
source project longest in development.
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> >Ditto for source tarballs...
> >That's it folks. If you can't even build a decent tarball, then to hell
> >with abiword. I feel like charlie brown kicking the football. For
> >years now, I have kept track of abiword waiting for it to become ready
> >for prime time. I think you people should try to finish basic
> >functionality on a single platform before you waste time trying to port
> >to every OS and every language. bye.
>
> Albert,
>
> AbiWord is a project run entirely by volunteers. We're contributing where we
> can to making a better OpenSource WP.
>
> IMNSHO, AbiWord is also a decent WP, on *all* of the platforms we run on. No
> one here runs Slackware. No one here develops on Slackware. However, I am
> positive that AbiWord will run on Slackware.
>
> My suggestion to you is to download the source tarballs or CVS and build
> Abiword yourself. If that's too much to ask, then I'm sorry. How many other
> OSS software projects release binaries in the native install format of so
> many platforms? None, so why are you bitching at our (failed) attempt?
> There's no reason why you can't take 15 minutes to download and compile
> Abiword and possibly submit a working TGZ package to us if we've spent 2
> years building a WP for you to use. Flaming the developers and maintainers
> will get you nothing but .killfile' d.
>
> Dom
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