Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
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Quote:Jim wrote:
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TheMagicM wrote:
No offense, but this is MorphOS. Let the OS4 guys figure their own way. I wouldn't contribute to any OS4 software.
I tend to agree, as many OS4 packages are less than impressive.
So, Steve, any idea if you can talk Eric into picking this idea back up and running with it?
You said you have some G5s, and I'm sure we could dig up a laptop for Eric if portability is an issue.
Is this project dead, or alive? I would really like to see a modern word processor with full printer support and the ability to open and save-as, almost any of the currently used word processing file formats.
I know that it probably would be a huge task to port and it might take years to complete, but I would support such a project, if a bounty was set up to get Libre Office ported to MorphOS.
As far as I know, I have to accept responsibility for it's demise (Steve can correct me if I am wrong).
I wanted to ship Eric a better system than I had on hand so by the time I obtained what I wanted to send, Eric was no longer fired up about pursuing the project (at the time, Steve also had a few G5s but this was before support was introduced).
I played around with an earlier source myself, but later revisions are more monolithic making it difficult to port parts of the program (the word processor in the earlier version could be compiled separately).
As my record of shipping things in a timely fashion is not that great, currently I'm just focusing on making amends to the friends I still owe stuff too.
A word to the wise (which means I probably can not take my own advice), if you are going to support something, do it passionately.
BTW - David, are you back in the US?
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
