Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

AbiWord has been ported on Maemo. I have a patch to commit to CVS HEAD for version 2.4

Gnumeric has been ported too. That is good news for Gnome-Office.

I don't know how serious and valid the study is, but there is a study about OpenOffice being faster than MS-Office. AbiWord is already faster on several point than OOo, but not on opening and handling big documents. If we target beating OOo, then we my win a lot. Definitely optimizeing our Piece Table (a slight redesign of the bottlenecks) might help a lot.

Due to a bad change in the cross-platform code, there won't be a 2.3.1 build for MacOS X of AbiWord. 2.3.1 is schedule for today.

Nothing to see, move along.

PS: Apple, you are really nice with your developers, not allowing them to use an older OS release on more recent hardware. I can't install 10.2 to debug AbiWord on 10.2 because it does not work on MacMini.

There is not prize for AbiWord in Google summer of code. What a shame. There is plenty of things to take, and we'd love to have someone sponsoring that. Perhaps because the is no AbiWord Foundation.