> > That's fine. For you OO.o is the right solution. Just remember that > > there are others for whom the opposite is true. Abiword does some things > > that OO.o can't do, and thus for them, that's the right solution. For > > me, there's no question that Abiword/Gnumeric are a better combination > > than OO.o. But it seems there's little point in arguing about it now. > > AFAICT, the decision has already been made, and FC4 will ship with them > > in Extras. Let's just hope someone sees the light and puts them back > > into Core for FC5. > > As far as i understand, extras is open for non-rh devs to maintain - and > if (example) AbiWord was maintained by somebody who used AbiWord > reguraly, and maybe even was an AbiWord developer - wouldn't that > possibly give a better AbiWord than somebody who never used it exept > fiering it up to check that "yum, it still starts" after recompiling, > but never sees any bugs etc. ? Yes indeed. But this is the whole point of involving the community and RH engaging the community. Wouldn't it be great *every* package in FC Core also had this kind of love? What needs to happen so this occurs? Cheers! Martin
