From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 05:39:45 EST
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Bernard Lambey wrote:
>> The problems you are experiencing are typical of mixing binary releases
>> from different sources. If you were to use official Mandrake 8.2 RPMs all
>> the time for all your applications then these problems wouldn't arise...
My point here is that it is possible to create a binary release which
targets a specific distribution, e.g. RedHat 8, but to create a binary
release which will work on a variety of distributions... well, it's
possible, and I have done it the past for someone. Also static builds
should work pretty well across different distributions, but I haven't
tried that.
Basically, AbiWord is a cross-platform and cross-distribution word
processor, which means we try to make it as easy as possible to build on
Win32, QNX and UNIX - we don't always succeed but we do our best. However,
we are not distributors, and our binary releases are limited to a few
volunteer contributions.
If you need help building AbiWord from source, then we are always happy to
help. If you need help installing binary releases, then there's really
very little we can do.
> My reproch is towards programmers: when they use a special lib not
> too frequently used by us, why they do not create a "lib of libs" in what
> to place the rare-libs, in order to avoid in the future problems like mine,
> because=
This is possible, and I do this with XAbiWord, but it's hard work and
would annoy those people who do have the libraries...
> But, have you any suggestion for that core file which appears JUST
> AT the AW session end?
No. Please try AbiWord-1.1.1 when it comes out (next week).
Ciao, Frank
ps. I can't even start an AbiWord session, let alone end one...
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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