Re: Autopackage forthcoming?

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
> An autopackage should be forthcoming, we haven't officially "dropped
> support" that's for sure. AbiWord is run by volunteers, and our
> volunteer AutoPackage-r hasn't gotten us a package of it yet. Hopefully
> that will change soon!
>
> Ryan
>

I like AbiWord but Slackware has dropped it from the next version
expected in a few weeks. The problem was AbiWord has too many
dependencies and is closely entangled with Gnome.

His announcement:
xap/abiword-2.2.9-i486-1.tgz: Removed. More recent versions of AbiWord
no longer support compiling without GNOME.

The maintainer of Slackware dropped Gnome entirely over a year ago after
complaints that just too many complicated packages to deal with.

AbiWord needs to come out with a package that includes most of the
dependencies with the possible exception of gtk itself. If that's what
an 'autopackage' is I'm all for it.

Larry

-- 
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux
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