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Subject: Re: K abiword port
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date: 1999-05-24 15:24:29
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
>
> Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > The problem here is not marketing but the development model: there has no
> > > "stable"/beta release of KOffice AFAIK.
> >
> > FWIW, Linux and Gtk+ both are constantly moving targets and have been
> > reasonably successful. It is mainly IMO a question of marketing, not
> > stable releases.
>
> Andreas is on the right track. Don't confuse "stable" with "compileable" (is
> that a word?). Linux and Gtk+ HAVE been moving targets.. but they release
> their code on a regular basis and it always (at least in the case of Linux..
> not sure about Gtk+) compiles and runs!
>
> We have *never* released a version of KOffice! Snapshots don't count -- they
> are no better than CVS.
>
> IMO, putting KOffice on a regular release schedule is an absolute MUST.
> However, this is incredibly hard to do now that it has been ported to KDE2.
> To get users to try KOffice, they need to
>
> a) get Qt 2.0 (several megs)
> b) get mico 2.2.6 (more megs)
> c) get kdelibs2 (more megs)
> d) get koffice (more megs)
>
> Moving KOffice to KDE2 right now was a huge mistake. If it had remained
> dependant on 1.1.1 until 2.0 was reasonably stable, then all users would need
> would be
>
> a) mico 2.2.x
> b) koffice
>
> They would already have a working qt and kdelibs!
>
> As it is now, KOffice is a very beautiful and powerful and is leagues ahead of
> any other open source office package... but is also functional vaporware.
Do you have an idea what you're saying here? I mean, it's not that we
play with
sand.
Greetings, Stephan
--
As long as Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics,
Microsoft have nothing to worry about.
By Michael Surkan, PC Week Online
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