On 8/3/06, Sander van Loon <svloon@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> I have brought this up before, and the answer was that because
> OpenDocument didn't play nice with Abiword's internals (or something
> like that, dunno what it was exactly anymore?) it was decided against
> using it as the default format.
>
> But will it remain like this in the future? We all think sane defaults
> are important, don't we? Yet still the abw format is the default, which
> is solely used by Abiword while OpenDocument is gaining more and more
> popularity.
>
> In the release notes of Abiword 2.4.5 it is mentioned that a massive
> amount of bugs in the OpenDocument import and export filters were fixed.
> When will the OpenDocument import and export filters have matured enough
> to justify using OpenDocument as the default format?
Since you admit having brought that topic up before this will be
nothing new for you: please check the mailing list archives [1] and
bugzilla [2] for exhaustive discussions. Additionally there is an FAQ
answer [3].
[1] http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/
[2] http://bugzilla.abisource.com/
[3] http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqOASISSupport
Best,
Rob
Received on Thu Aug 3 18:56:34 2006
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