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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: K abiword port
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-25 8:14:50
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> 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.

Ok, a partial solution is to make precompile binaries for the major
distributions available from time to time. Lets call them interim
releases. The feedback would also be valuable for the KOffice developers. 

Opinions?

Regards,
-- martin

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// Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
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