Subject: Re: Mac support usable?
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 07:13:06 CST
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> A friend and I are going to collaborate on a document via email, and he's on Mac
> OS and I'm on everything, mostly linux these days but Mac OS is included too.
>
> He asked what word processor we should use and I suggested we use AbiWord, and
> gave some convincing arguments as to why (open source, open file format,
> cross-platform, etc.).
>
> I'd had the impression that the Mac support was working these days, but it's not
> listed at this page:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/free.phtml
>
> Is it usable on Mac OS? Would it be if my friend built it from source? If so,
> would you advise using the latest release tarball or the latest CVS?
>
> I guess I should get off my arse and contribute some real code I've got a Mac
> development system and the Spotlight debugger.
Mike,
I think that the Mac port is ... well in progress. I'd
guess that it is probably usable, but may be missing a few
features such as dialogs and the like. Hub will hopefully
chime in since he has been the one doing all of the work
on it.
Working off the CVS baseline is definitely the way to go.
Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
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