AbiWord Weekly News #104 by Eric A. Zen | Linux Today

AbiWord Weekly News #104 by Eric A. Zen

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 13, 2002

“After the bug-squashing and feature adding of last week, this
week seems comparatively quiet. However, there is much floating
around, particularly many preparations and cleanups, to suggest
that the week to come will be nearly as eventful as last week.
There was some building issues from source, particularly in
relation to fribidi, but most of that’s been cleared up (commenting
out is the secret to quick clean up).

“My bringing back of POW’s resulted in me doing something
mightily foolish. I’ve made the mistake of using the actual POW
page, which is updated on an ‘as I remember it’ basis. I
specifically was going to place unclaimed POW’s/uPOW’s to the page,
but those who’ve taken up them up between AWN to AWN deserve
acknowledgment too. And, I will point out, if you take a POW and
would like a li’l extra help, mention it in the list and I’ll add
that as well. Alan proposed the POW ‘A Few Good Strings,’ which Er
Perjcao Frito declared a good ZAPping to, and the commit came from
Andrew Dunbar. Though this was put in the CVS table last week, as
it was a POW, it deserves a special mention…”

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