FinalWriter bounty?

[desiv]

Why would you want to use something this old?.

Funny quote considering this is an Amiga forum.  ;-)

I'd say, it depends on whether or not it works well.
If it works well and we only need to tweak file formats, then it should still be fine, even tho it's "this old."

desiv

[desiv]

Yeah, I suppose what I was getting at was that I think the codebase for the older WP programs might be just about fine, if the basic feature set is still good.

Trying to add compatibility for modern formats might (??) to an older codebase might be easier than trying to port more modern (and bloated IMHO) programs...

desiv
I had a friend who always swore that Word for the Mac (version 4 maybe?) was the best word processor ever, and that it's been mostly bloat from there on.. ;-)

[desiv]

If we want compatibility with modern formats it might be a massive project with eternal bug fixing with the old programs

Yes, it might..
Or it might not...  I only mean it is worth considering the options..

they probably lost their interest even before it gets anywhere near the specs of the modern programs.

And that is one of my points..
Are we doing this for what we need?  Or are we doing this to reach the "specs of the modern programs"?  Those might be very different things...

I think it would be better to port some modern software, even if it's a big job at first. But if the port gets made, then it already has pretty good compatibility with modern formats and maybe applying the new changes would be easier in future.

I think sometimes, this is true...
But other times, people end up adding/chasing features that virtually no one will use..  
If you watch the amount of changes that go into things like Open/Libre/{whatever it's called now}Office just trying to "catch" the current products with features I think most people will never use, I think THAT is a HUGE amount of work.

Now true, if you port the development libs over, so you can just use the same codebase with virtually no changes, then you can use the work of others..  Great.
But if you have to keep re-porting major parts whenever an update comes out, it might not be worth it..

And I've always been a fan of native code for native OS/hardware for speed and simplicity...

desiv