On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:00:43AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Abiword is currently broken in f16/rawhide due to the retiring of > link-grammar (a FTBFS retiree). > > This is currently breaking the Xfce, LXDE, and soas spins. > > Would someone be interested in reviving link-grammar and possibly > helping out updating/maintaining abiword? > > I've also sent email to the abiword maintainer, but they haven't > commited to abiword in almost a year. Others have been fixing it. ;( > > I'd guess the next steps would be: > > * update link-grammar and get it building/working. > * submit a review for it and get it back in. > * update abiword and rebuild to use that version of link-grammar. > > kevin Would an option be to just retire abiword? Its slowly gotten less useful in most cases because it doesn't handle formats near as well as it once did (even .odt ... going from libreoffice to abiword is ... well, painful) and if upstream isn't contuning development on it is there much motivation to keep it alive? (I'm not entirely familiar with its user base so my suggestion might be heavily greated with "OMG NOES!" replies and if that's the case then by all means keep the train moving forward ... I just hate to unnessecary work done.) Also, I think with the new compression on the Live images all the spins have the spare space for LibreOffice. Just my $0.02. -AdamM -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
