Subject: Re: [Free]DOS port?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 12:26:51 CST
At 12:55 PM 11/6/01 -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>Porting AbiWord to plain DOS would be totally possible, and like all
>things, we welcome outside support.
>
>Porting AbiWord to DOS would *not* be pointless. I'd call it
>"ill-advised" instead, at least for the efforts of AbiWord's core
>developers, such as Sam and myself.
Absolutely. This is the abiword-user list, and you'd get this kind of
answer from any of the core developers.
The only way to get a different answer is to ask a different question over
on the abiword-dev list. For example, we'd respond quite differently over
there if someone asked:
"Hi. I'm an expert at building user interfaces on FreeDOS, and
to show off my talents, I'd like to create the *ultimate* retro
port of AbiWord. Where should I start and what kinds of problems
am I likely to run into?"
However, we're not holding our breath waiting for that to happen, and you
shouldn't either. :-)
Paul
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