Re: solution for typesetting

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:32:27PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hallo Berhard,
> 
> thanks for the reply.
> > [..]
> > I'm thinking a bit about how to promote the skencil 0.7 line
> > a bit more. At intevation we based on extension on the 0.7 line
> > also there is a windows version. As you are starting a fresh
> > development it might make sense to base it on 0.7 to motivate
> > everybody to get 0.7 in a really usable state.

> Now I want to see it working as soon as possible. 
> I am not at all familiar with the 0.7
> code. If you would program the 0.7 backend, I would consider switching.
> The next argument is that I would really like to use it for my work. I do
> not see any progrss with 0.7 so that this could be an alternative for 0.6
> in the near future. 

This is a chicken and egg problem.
0.6 is so stable that people don't start using 0.7
and developing for it. So not many people help with 0.7.

> On the other hand, porting should not be the problem.
> The amount of code which is depending on the gui is, and will be small.

That is good.

        Bernhard R.

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