[Sugar-devel] AbiWord version while using Sugar

[James Cameron]

G'day,

When you install the Write activity on Fedora or Ubuntu, the AbiWord
library is installed automatically through package dependencies.

On latest Fedora and Ubuntu the version of AbiWord is 3.0.2.  [0]

On OLPC OS for NL3 and ED20 models, which is based on Ubuntu 18.04,
the version of AbiWord is 3.0.2.  [2]

On OLPC OS 13.2.10 for XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4, which is based
on Fedora 18, the version of AbiWord is 2.9.3.  [1]

Once the Port to Python 3 for Write is merged [3], development for
OLPC XO will move to the branch "fedora18".  Any workarounds for old
versions of AbiWord can be removed from "master" branch.

References:

0.  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/abiword/blob/master/f/abiword.spec
    https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=abiword

1.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.10
    http://download.laptop.org/xo-4/os/official/latest/32022o4.packages.txt

2.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/18.04.0
    http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/.2019-04-17/olpc-os-18.04.0-1555466075.iso.packages.txt

3.  https://github.com/sugarlabs/write-activity/pull/34

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Swarup N wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been working on the Write-activity since yesterday. After
> going through the issues opened on GitHub, and many in
> https://bugs.sugarlabs.org, I realised that several bugs exist in
> the activity, because of bugs in AbiWord.  Several places in the
> activity as well, there mentions of specific AbiWord bugs, because
> of which certain features are excluded.
> 
> After exploring these known AbiWord bugs on mailing lists, forums
> etc, a lot of these have been fixed in later versions of AbiWord. I
> have shared a few links to mailing lists in support.
> 
> Hence I wished to know what version of AbiWord does Sugar come with?
> I do not remember specifically installing AbiWord, rather it came
> along with Sugar. A lot of bugs can be fixed, features implemented
> if the AbiWord version that comes along with Sugar can be updated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13585
> https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13585

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/