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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice development
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-08-03 9:06:39
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Frank Endriss wrote:
> 
> Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> > Also if somebody wants to work on other parts of the KOffice, you are
> > welcomed!!!
> 
> Not really, see below.
> 
> > I really think that KOffice can be THE Killerapplication in the free software
> > development if we concentrate on application development and stabilize the
> > applications and do not change the framework all the time. If we don't get on
> > the correct path soon, we will never get a stable and useable KOffice and one
> > day the project might fail. So it's really important that we get more people on
> > board which are interested in application development!
> 
> Just my two cents:
> KOffice is too unstable. I do software development
> since about ten years now, earn good money with it.
> All in all i am a lucky guy.
> 
> Since two weeks I try to compile the current snapshots
> of KDE and KOffice.
> KDE is compilable most of the time, sometimes failes.
> KOffice _always_ fails.
> I do use Kernel 2.2.9, egcs1.1.2, nothing special.
> Compilation fails with errors like:
> 
> koDocument.cc:173: no match for `QRect & = int'
> 
> Sorry, this is really _stupid_ ! You wont get
> more developers into the project if you dont
> maintain a compilable version of koffice.
There are no such error messages in _my_ version of
koffice.

Greetings, Stephan

> 
> Why not do incremental, evoloutional development ?
> This is, having a "somewhat stable" version
> available, and patching this one.
> Part of this "somewhat stable" version is a
> description of some development environment which
> is known to work !
> 
> Again: what you do is cool. Really cool. But
> it wont work this way.

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