Adam Miller wrote: > 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 > I'd like to see abiword stick around, my $0.02. -J -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
