[sugar] AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!

[J.M. Maurer]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:31 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:17 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog at uwog.net> wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> >> Can you make a .xo file that people can download and install via the
> >> browser on the XO?
> >
> > You don't need an .xo update for this (the current Write version will
> > work just fine), but an libabiword RPM update. I'm not sure how people
> > with an XO would retrieve this, as I was out of the loop for a lil'
> > while and stuff has been changing fast ;)
> 
> Well, this is still pretty much the same, people would need to install
> a rpm via the traditional methods and would need root for that.

So "yum -y update libabiword" it is.

  Marc

> There's some chance of bundling the libraries inside the .xo,
> overriding the ones in the system, though haven't tried that myself
> and I'm not sure what it would take.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> > Anyone?
> >
> >  Marc
> >
> >> If you can post that, I think I can get a few Arabic speakers with
> >> Arabic XOs to try it out.
> >
> > That would be very much appreciated!
> >
> >  Marc
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Greg S
> >>
> >> ************
> >>
> >> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:14:44 +0100
> >> From: "J.M. Maurer" <uwog at uwog.net>
> >> Subject: [sugar] AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!
> >> To: sugar at lists.laptop.org
> >> Message-ID: <1227478484.13625.52.camel at sigma.lan.uwog.net>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
> >> OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
> >> but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?
> >>
> >> The most important change in this release for OLPC is "improved complex
> >> script rendering". To be precise: before 2.6.5, AbiWord did not always
> >> shape composite glyphs correctly. This made AbiWord unusable for
> >> languages like Arabic.
> >>
> >> So, I'd like to ask everyone familiar with such languages to test
> >> AbiWord 2.6.5. If you use the Write activity that uses libabiword 2.6.5
> >> to test Arabic for example, then make sure to use a font that includes
> >> Arabic glyphs. DejaVu Sans does if I remember correctly[1].
> >>
> >> We improved our rendering based on community feedback only, as none of
> >> the AbiWord developers have any knowledge of complex scripts themselves.
> >> Ergo:
> >>
> >>    * We depend on your feedback! *
> >>
> >> Thanks to all who helped in the process so far.
> >>
> >> If you find any bugs, the please file a bug report at
> >> http://bugzilla.abisource.com. Extra kudos if you can reproduce it
> >> reliably  :)
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>    Marc
> >>
> >> [1] Write should default to a proper font based on the locale. It's a
> >> known 'bug'.
> >
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