Subject: Re: Table Support
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 07:44:36 CDT
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
> I've been watching the progress of abiword for quite a while now
> and actively download the latest builds when they become available
> and I have to say that the product is now very very usable. The
> *one* remaining thing that I think it really needs is table support.
>
> I know this is slatted for a "future" release but I was wondering
> how other users feel about table support. I've cast my votes for
> it in bugzilla but to me this is probably *the* feature that
> prevents it from being deployed within our organisation.
>
> Abiword reads most .doc files reasonably well but if they contain
> tables then the result is pretty much just a mess.
>
Hi Peter,
I'm extremely keen to put table support into abiword. However I'm
reluctant to start before a stable 1.0 is out and behind us. I suspect
that getting table support into abiword might render it unusable for a
month or two.
I'd like us to have a nice stable and usable release out and behind us
before starting on this. This require a genuine feature freeze for a while
we do nothing but squash bugs.
I've made a couple of posts on abiword-dev about when to make a feature
freeze. I'll see if we can come to a concesus.
Cheers
Martin
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