Subject: Re: Mac support usable?
From: Hubert Figuière (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 12:42:06 CST
"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?
No.
> Would it be if my friend built it from source? If so,
> would you advise using the latest release tarball or the latest CVS?
It may build. YMMV. But it does NOT works as some of the core feature of
the framework are not implemented.
> I guess I should get off my arse and contribute some real code I've got a Mac
> development system and the Spotlight debugger.
Yes, please do.
I'll try soon to sum up the TODO list. I haven't worked on AbiWord for
several week due to personal reasons.
Hub
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