July 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape in the Press
by Taraben, Adib 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hi all, after the german c't guy got the information about the release he put a nice articel on their news ticker. http://www.heise.de http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62184 Adib. ---

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[santiagoroza@...400...: Inkscape / GTK+]
by Bryce Harrington 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Thanks Santiago, a few people have commentd on the windows Gtk+ lib bundling before, but I'll pass your comments along to the developers. They've been investigating alternative packaging approaches, so you may be more satisfied with it in the future. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Santiago Roza <santiagoroza@...400...> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:26:51 -0300 From: Santiago Roza <santiagoroza@...400...> To: bryce@...1... Reply-To: Santiago Roza <santiagoroza@...400...> Subject: Inkscape / GTK+ Hello, my name is Santiago Roza, and I'm a freelance writer for USERS magazine (a tech mag in Argentina and Mexico), specialized in Free software. First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for your work: it's great to have a Free [and top quality] vector drawing program, and it's because of extraordinary people like you that F/OSS keeps evolving. That said, I'd like to make a tiny little suggestion for the Win32 builds: I've seen you guys are bundling the GTK+ libraries with the installer, and while I have to admit that may ease things to some extent, I don't think it's the best (and most thoughtful) choice, considering there are many other Win32 apps which also depend on GTK+ (GIMP, X-Chat, Gaim, Abiword, Dia, and maybe more in the near future). Well I guess that's all for now. Greetings, and thanks in advance. -- Santiago Roza santiagoroza@...400... http://santiagoroza.blogspot.com/ PD: I'm sorry I'm contacting you personally, but I couldn't find a generic Inkscape email adress. ----- End forwarded message -----

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DDC '05 Inkscape presentation
by Bryce Harrington 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I've posted the presentation I gave at the Desktop Developer's Conference in Ottawa last week here: http://www.bryceharrington.com/Present_desktopcon/ Looks like Firefox can display most of it directly, but a few slides are missing some of the elements, so I've also uploaded it as a tarball. To view it, open the tarball, cd into Present_desktopcon/ and then run $ inkview *.svg Also, there is a Slideshow/ directory with some examples of art that folks have done with Inkscape. Bryce

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Re: Re: configure error libgc x86_64
by Hendrik-Jan Heins 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Incorporating the patch was not as smooth as I hoped. The main reason for this was the fact that there's no "autogen.sh" in the inkscape tarball. SO I took that from CVS. However, the patch seems to work. Compiling went ok. I'll send the RPM to the file list in a couple of minutes. Thanks Kees! Hendrik-Jan Thanks for the log. Looks like a "fix" for linking libgc on BSD broke x86_64. :( Try the attached patch for configure.ac (and re-run autogen.sh). Hopefully that will make it work again. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="conf.diff" --- configure.ac 2005-07-24 14:17:54.000000000 -0700 +++ /scratch/src/inkscape/inkscape/configure.ac 2005-07-27 07:07:37.291474392 -0700 @@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ AC_MSG_ERROR([libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape]) fi +dnl Handle possible dlopen requirement for libgc +AC_CHECK_LIB([dld], [shl_load], [lt_cv_dlopen="shl_load" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-dld"], [AC_CHECK_FUNC([dlopen], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dlopen"], + [AC_CHECK_LIB([dl], [dlopen], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dlopen" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-ldl"], + [AC_CHECK_LIB([svld], [dlopen], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dlopen" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-lsvld"], + [AC_CHECK_LIB([dld], [dld_link], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dld_link" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-dld"]) + ]) + ]) + ]) + ]) + AC_CHECK_HEADERS([gc.h gc/gc.h], [ # To test for the different required libs, I have to @@ -114,9 +128,11 @@ #else # include <gc.h> #endif + #include <stdio.h> extern unsigned GC_version; int main(void){ unsigned min = ((6 << 16) | (4 << 8) | 0); + printf("%d.%d.%d ",GC_version >> 16, (GC_version >> 8) & 0xFF, GC_version & 0xFF); if (GC_version>=min) return 0; return 1; }]])], -- Publieke GnuPG sleutel beschikbaar op de volgende keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu Public GnuPG key available at keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu

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static rpm requires libgc
by bulia byak 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Kees, I just ran ldd on the static 586 binary for 0.41 and 0.42. One difference is that 0.42 requires libgc: libgc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 (0x40661000) while 0.41 did not. Why is that? Can we please fix that? I suspect it's one of the reasons for why so many people have problems with running it now. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 0.42 release
by Bryce Harrington 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

This weekend the Inkscape 0.42 release was branched and tagged, and packages posted. Congrats to everyone that participated in this release! With CVS now tagged and branched, this means we are past the hard freeze. The codebase is now open for commits. Regarding CVS access: If you need access, the rule is that you must have two patches accepted. I know a *lot* of people had patches accepted, so there's probably a fair number of you who qualify. If this describes you, please email your SourceForge ID to me or another admin. (Note that you can continue using the patch tracker if you prefer, the CVS access is given for your convenience.) Our final step to complete the release is to get word out about the release. Rejon is creating and distributing release announcements, but I would also like to strongly encourage others to send out word. Please help us get word out about Inkscape 0.42. Tell people about the nifty new features it has; show off examples of the cool things you're able to do with it; write articles about it in some of the online news sites; find new mailing lists or websites to send our announcement; demo it at LUG's or other OSS gatherings; help friends or family members install it. Looking further forward, I think there is a general concensus that we want to get 0.43 out more quickly than 0.42. This is mainly to give the SoC students a chance to participate in an open source project's full release cycle. We're hoping that 0.43 can be done on the order of a month or two. Bryce

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linuxformat
by Jon Phillips 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I've been contacted by Linux Format (UK) for an interview about Inkscape for their upcoming issue. Cool! PR pays off! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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recent commits
by Ralf Stephan 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Sorry for touching so much header files again but that's the last time for the next weeks, promise! I thought better this way than in a steady trickle. ralf

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Inkscape 0.42 release
by Bryce Harrington 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Simarilius pointed out that we're getting a surge of interest in our release. Just within the past day, there's been over 28,000 downloads of 0.42 packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=93438&ugn=inkscape… For comparison, we saw 168,750 total downloads of 0.41, including about 35,000 in the first month of the release. I have a feeling we'll be exceeding that a bit this time. ;-) Good work everyone, and congrats to Rejon for getting the release news out all over the internet, and to Bulia for getting an announcement posted to Slashdot today. The Inkscape Marketing Machine in action! :-) It's really impressive to see how well the teamwork has worked for this release; I don't think I could count the number of people who made critical contributions to the process, from debugging to documenting to translation to packaging to marketing. Bryce

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Re: configure error libgc x86_64
by Hendrik-Jan Heins 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Attached is the output of the config.log file. Hendrik-Jan -- Publieke GnuPG sleutel beschikbaar op de volgende keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu Public GnuPG key available at keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu

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