Re: ATTN: AbiWord v2.2.10 Released

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:52:07 -0700
> From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com>
> To: Beartooth <beartooth@adelphia.net>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com, abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: ATTN: AbiWord v2.2.10 Released
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:56 -0400, Beartooth wrote:
>
> >
> > That page offers something new to me, called an "autopackage" -- which
> > seems to be independent of distro, if I read the instructions aright, and
> > to have a GUI (both of which I like) -- but also to say that I have to
> > uninstall the old one.
> >
> > I'm reluctant to do that even on my machine, where I rarely use any word
> > processor (though AbiWord is it when I do); I'm more than reluctant to do
> > so on my user's machine, where there's half a novel to lose.
> >
> > Can I no longer just download an rpm and do rpm -Uvh?? (I'm running Fedora
> > Core 4)
> >
>

> No disrespect meant to the AbiWord team, but I think autopackage is a
> bad idea.

Autopackage is a fantastic idea which allows the Abiword developers to
provide one package to serve a wide audience. Less work on packaging and
more work actually developing the software they care about.

What is more Rob went to the trouble of creating Autopackages and he is
perfectly entitled to spend his development time doing whatever he likes.

> At any rate, I highly suspect an FC4 package will turn up very quickly
> in Extras.

I'm confident that will happen too. The availability of autopackages
doesn't stop people from producing other packages but it does give the
abiword developers more choice about how they spend their time.

Wouldn't you prefer if the Abiword developers spent more time developing
and less time packaging?

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Tue Sep 27 01:40:09 2005