From: Marcel Pol (mpol@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 06:15:48 EDT
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:09:07 +1000 (EST)
<msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:03:57 +0200
> > Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote:
> >> BTW, as the STABLE (ie 1.0.x) branch maintainer, I recommend to jump
> >> to 1.99.x
> >
> > I'm going a bit offtopic, but I'm wondering, is there any real reason to
> > stay with stable?
> > I was planning to have both packages in contribs for Mandrake 9.2, and
> > the person who decides over contribs at Mandrakesoft is ok with that,
> > but if there's no real reason, it would make life a bit easier to just
> > have one package.
> > I myself am happy with abiword2, but I'm not someone who pushes
> > text-editing to the limit, so I'd like to have more opinions.
> >
>
> I strongly recommend AbiWord-1.99.3 over 1.0.6.
>
> 1. Mandrake is in Beta, it's a good time to test out new software.
> 2. 1.99.3 is now in fact very stable, even with all the new features.
> 3. You no longer have to do weird things to Mandrake's font system.
> 4. Finding stablity bugs is now the right thing to do for Mandrake.
> 5. AbiWord-2.0 is so much better than 1.0.6 it's not funny.
>
> I put my mother on 1.99.2. She's very happy with it. 1.99.3 is much better
> than 1.99.2
Ok, thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can do.
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