From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 21:55:23 EDT
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Kenneth J.Davis wrote:
> Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote on 5/3/2002 7:37:50 PM:
> >
> >Hi Folks,
> > We're all having great fun hacking on our favourite parts of
> >abiword.
> >
> >This is clearly great!
> >
> >However we still haven't made our grand announcement yet. You know where
> >we email bomb every news site in the world with our existance.
> >
> >For that we should finish building binaries for 1.0.1. From memory we need
> >win32 binaries for the plugins and binaries for RH 7.2 rpm's. Jeremy has
> >often built win32 binaries. Can you build the win32 plugins.
>
> I will see if I have time tommorrow (I am presently working on my
> FreeDOS distribution), however in the meantime all* the plugins I built
> the day or so before the 1.0.1 release do work with the 1.0.1 binaries.
> http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/builds/periodic/
>
> That is all the ones that compile and run at least to some degree are there,
> both available separately and as collections. Some of them are patched
> [the AbiPaint & AbiMagick patches I've already commited post 1.0.1,
> the others I'm not planning on committing (BZ2Abw, Aiksaurus) and I'm
> not sure if I should commit the changes for AbiGimp and Wikipedia)].
>
> So do you want those plugins built from pristine source? (The 1.0.1
> AbiWord.exe binaries are from clean unmodified source.) Or do should I include
> my patches in the plugins builds that fix (or work around) some specific issues?
>
Well the "right" thing to do would be to build from pristine sources but
in this case I think you should build the plugin binaries with your
additional patches.
This will be our big chance to get windows users who make up 95% of the
computer using population. I think we should put our best foot forward
for this.
However I will back down if people violentently object.
> ..
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
> >Martin
>
> We do need to at least update (or remove) the link to the AbiMagick [Image Magick]
> plugin in the plugins section of the site (if it hasn't already been done so
> recently) as it hasn't worked with the AbiWord.exe binaries since 0.99.3 I believe.
>
Hub, Sam, Aiken?
Cheers
Martin
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