Subject: Re: MacOS (was Re: "must have" packages)
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 19:06:11 CDT
At 11:59 AM 8/25/01 +0200, Håkan Waara wrote:
>David Chart wrote:
>> On 25 Aug 2001 00:55:10 +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>>>According to Hkan Waara <hwaara@chello.se>:
>>>
>>>>I think providing binaries for the three major OS' (MacOS, Linux,
>>>>Windows) should be considered a must.
>>>>
>>>MacOS is a little bit premature. But when it will be, I'll surely provide
>>>binaries, because it is unlikely that the average MacOS use be able to
>>>build it....
>>
>> On that subject, have we advertised AbiWord to MacInTouch lately? That's
>> where I first heard about it, at least two years ago. A lot of Mac
>> people read that page, and so if we advertise there for hackers to get
>> the port finished, I think there's a good chance of picking one up.
>>
>> http://www.macintouch.com/
>
>IMHO, the very best way to attract developers and gain attention is to
>loudly release a milestone, in this case also on the Mac as a must.
Absolutely. I'm sure that Hub would like to show off his work, so I can
imagine at least several milestone releases it would be worth bragging to
the Mac community about. For example:
1. we just need help (doesn't do squat)
2. looks like a word processor (can open, display, and scroll docs)
3. acts like a word processor (you can edit and save, too)
4. platform parity (as good as the other platforms)
Since we've already done #1, the next milestone would be #2, and I can't
imagine Hub being shy at that point. ;-)
However, we may also want to start announcing 0.9.* releases to the Mac
community, saying that a Mac port is under way, and if they want to see it
sooner, they should send Mac developers our way to help out.
But I'll leave that decision up to the folks on our evangelism team (hint,
hint).
Paul
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