Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 09:59, Walter Reed wrote: > >> In other words, it is TOTALLY unusable for anything at all. It can't > >> even handle very simplistic documents. > > Im just wondering, but is there any chance that we could get OOo listed > > in the dependencies for gnome. Like put it in as an or against abiword > > and gnumerics. I think OOo has far surpassed both of these projects and > > it would be a better idea to have these installed over abiword and > > gnumerics. Just MHO. > > > OOo is not part of Gnome. Futhermore is OOo a really huge beast > compared to Abiword + Gnumeric.
[...] Well, OOo has been "declared" a part of Gnome by Sun. But it's true, it is a (powerful) hog and it doesn't integrate with Gnome. While Gnumeric is quite mature and stable, almost a drop-in replacement for M$ Excel, the current version of AbiWord in Sid is still heavily broken. It heavily violates the FHS (Binaries in /usr/share) and it is _very_ unstable, doesn't have Gnome compliant XML-documentation, the bonobo component is broken etc. After all, I would regard it as alpha quality software which should not be in Debian main but would be better placed in experimental. I think that depending on it is currently not yet a good idea. Thanks, Johannes
