Opened 16 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#17012 new update
Request newer build of abiword
| Reported by: | mike@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.6.0 |
| Keywords: | cocoa | Cc: | rudloff@…, cooljeanius (Eric Gallager) |
| Port: | abiword |
Description
A Mac OS X native version of Abiword has not been released since 2.4.5. However, GTK now has a quartz backend that does not require X11.
I'd like to propose that the abiword package be updated to 2.6 and the Mac OS X native version be abandoned. People who want to avoid X11 can build the GTK version against GTK/Quartz.
There are a few issues in the abiword codebase that are keeping me from building abiword 2.6 against GTK/Quartz. See Abisource bug #11793.
Attachments (3)
Change History (15)
comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Milestone: | Port Enhancements → Port Updates |
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| Port: | abiword added |
Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Attachment: | missing-nibs.diff added |
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comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
This produces a Cocoa build of AbiWord 2.6.5, but it completely fails to work. Maybe someone else can figure out what is needed.
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by mike@…
Work on the AbiWord / Cocoa code has begun again. See http://uwog.net/news/?p=25.
comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Type: | enhancement → update |
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comment:6 Changed 15 years ago by mike@…
Upstream AbiWord version 2.7.7 has made a lot of progress with the Cocoa code. There are a few compile issues left (Mac OS X 10.4), but it is clear that the code is getting a lot of attention.
comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)
| Keywords: | cocoa added |
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There currently is no maintainer for this port so the best approach would be for someone who is interested in the port to update the Portfile as necessary and attach a diff (patch) against the current port for consideration by a committer. Since (from your comments) that the code seems to be unstable still perhaps a new abiword-devel port would be appropriate.
comment:8 Changed 14 years ago by mike@…
As of version 2.8, AbiWord / Cocoa compiles again. However, there is one issue that breaks the build of Snow Leopard. The fix for Snow Leopard is documented at AbiWord Bugzilla #12446.
comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by rudloff@…
Abiword 2.8.6 seems to build and work fine (at least on Tiger).
Changed 12 years ago by rudloff@…
| Attachment: | Portfile.diff added |
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comment:11 Changed 12 years ago by su-v
Abiword 2.8.6 (based on the portfile patch provided by rudloff) builds from source and installs without errors on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (i386). Afaict the application works as expected (though I haven't tested it beyond launching and using some basic text editing functions).
I'd be interested in a GTK+ variant for the port, based on GTK+/X11 (and optionally, if supported upstream, on GTK+/Quartz).
abiword 2.6.5