On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Adam Miller <maxamill...@fedoraproject.org>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, biw > OMG NOES! It is used by OLPC and I use it constantly as its infinitely faster than oowriter for basic documents. Peter
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