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Cmake build stuff
by Joshua Blocher 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Guys, I'm current locked out of my sf.net account. As soon as i get back in i will commit what i have for cmake build system so far. Joshua L. Blocher

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Feature proposal: moving nodes without moving handles
by Miguel BYRAM 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, I'm a Inkscape user for 3 or 4 years and first of all I want to thank and congratulate U for this program. I'm also a C++ beginner developer and I want to implement a functionality. It's about the moving of nodes. In Inkscape, at present, when U move a node toward a vector V1, his handles (bezier indicators) move with the same vector V1. What I want to do is to add the possibility to move a node with V1 while his handles move with f*V1 where 0.0 <= f <= 1.0 As if U put a spaghetti on a table, U took it near the middle and pull it up. This could be very useful to draw a sun or a hair shape. As I said earlier, I'm a C++ beginner. I just succeeded in compiling Inkscape using Eclipse under Ubuntu but I don't know where to modify, or search... even where to look at, to understand how the node's moving works presently. So here are my questions : 1. Did I made myself clear ? English is not my mother tongue (so please pardon me for faults) and before going further I want U to understand my proposition. 2. Could someone lead me or just show me where to look at to understand the Inkscape architecture and more specifically the node's moving ? Thanks. ..miguel..

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NEW: "No Filters" view mode
by MenTaLguY 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

By popular request (and personal need) I've added an additional view mode which lies between "Outline" and "Normal"; objects retain their normal appearance except that filter effects are not applied. This is most useful when interactively drawing in complex documents and leaving filters enabled would harm responsiveness too much. Editing or tweaking existing paths is still often best done in "Outline" mode. -mental

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clok (visualise time)
by Marcin Floryan 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, Found this nifty little tool recently and thought it might prove useful for some folks here since we are all scattered around the globe a bit ;-) http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/clok/ Regards, -- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/ [GPG Key ID: 0D5581C5]

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GSoC08: Tech Drawing ideas (comments very welcome)
by Maximilian Albert 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, unfortunately I haven't yet received any response to my other emails, so I don't know if there is a potential mentor for any of them or if they are suitable for a SoC project at all. In any case, I have written up some thoughts regarding the facilitation of geometric constructions/tech drawing in Inkscape. They can be found here: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~malbert/tech_drawing/ It's a draft and not complete yet (but all I could manage alongside studying for my graduation exam). I would very much appreciate any input/comments/suggestions/criticism. Would any of the potential mentors be willing to supervise such a project? Thank you very much in advance for any feedback, Max P.S.: I'd still love to elaborate on my 3D-related ideas but I feel they are much less straightforward to implement so I'd need advice from more experienced developers regarding feasibility/desirability and on which things to concentrate before going into more detail.

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Teaser: Inkscape goes 3D
by Maximilian Albert 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, here is the first pay-off of my 3D box refactoring after last GSoC. I'm proud to introduce Inkscape's first diffident steps into the 3rd dimension: Perspective paths. :) The new feature is implemented as a Live Path Effect, and contrary to what I had expected it's actually quite usable. ;-) Here is a screenshot of what it looks like with some text added to the two sides of a 3D box: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~malbert/images/teaser_3D_LPE.png Note that the original path is still editable (also note Johan's great new feature of highlighing paths!). The effect can take as input any path but if you want to give it a try then it's probably best to use it with text first (converted to paths, of course) because this makes it easier to interpret the visual result. Please keep in mind that it's only meant as a proof-of-concept. The UI needs to be refined, functionality to be added, and above all the perspective is not yet interactively adaptable (mainly because LPEs can't take arbitrary SPObjects as parameters); at present the effect just grabs the first existing perspective from the document. So a workaround would be to draw a 3D box, modify its perspective and reapply the LPE to the path. It should then use the updated perspective (provided that it's the first one occurring in the document defs). Have fun using this. :) Cheers, Max P.S.: Apart from my GSoC application (which still needs to be submitted) this is likely to be the last thing you'll hear from me for the next six weeks or so. I need to drastically reduce the time invested for coding and mailing list interaction (as much fun as it is), otherwise I risk my remaining exams to badly go down the drain, which I really don't want to happen.

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Inkscape 0.46 Win32 Released
by rygle 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Great news. Today the stable release of Inkscape 0.46 Win32 is up on sourceforge. Thanks to many who tested and several who fixed bugs. This release has been a real team effort. The installer file is here; http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.46.win32.exe And the zip file (non-installer) versions and windows specific source will follow very soon. Draw Freely, Rygle -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-0.46-Win32-Released-tp16415387p16415387.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape
by Diederik van Lierop 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Op Wo, 2 april, 2008 13:26, schreef Maximilian Albert: > [...] But given that snapping is a common issue > with tech drawing and CAD, I was considering to include some of it in my > GSoC proposal as more advanced features. In particular, "tangent > snapping" (of lines to curves, possibly even of arbitrary curves to each > other) would be very nice and seams quite feasible using 2geom. Currently all snapping is from a single point (node/bbox corner) to another point or to a path. Adding midpoints, circle centers, etc. is easy, as this requires only calculating additional points. Things become a little bit more complicated though when we would like to snap paths to paths, e.g. to make them tangent or perpendicular. Assuming that 2geom provides the math to find tangents and such, then it's still doable for pure translations of objects (using the selector tool). We will only have to iterate through the paths instead of through the points. But things do get complicated when objects are being scaled / skewed, or when a single node within a path is being dragged in the node editor. In these cases one of the paths is changing shape. > Since I know that Diederik is working on snapping and I don't want to > steal his work :), my question is mainly directed at him: Do you think > this is a good idea? If so, what else would you consider worthwhile (and > don't want to do yourself)? I've been working so far on the point to point/path snapping, which is nearing completion. I don't think there's much left to do there, except for some GUI related stuff (dialogs, snapping indicator, etc.), and calculating additional midpoints and such. It will probably take me a few months, but that's only because my time is limited. It is not very challenging. If you'd like to work on the snapping, then you should work on the path-to-path snapping. This will be a significant amount of work. IMO you could go either of two ways for this: - build a general path-to-path snapping framework, which is available anywhere (node editor, creating new shapes, selector tool). This is what we also have for the point-to-point/path snapping - or limit it to specific tools, e.g. perpendicular snapping only in the Freehand / Bezier tools, not in the selector tool's transformations. I think the former would be quite ambitious, don't know it it's really possible, also because I haven't thought about it very long yet. The latter would give more chance of achieving something, step by step. Diederik

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Call for help: Screenshots needed for 0.46
by bulia byak 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

As we're nearing the release, we need more screenshots to show off the new features in 0.46, to be published at http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en. Here's a page describing how to create good screenshots: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots. Use the information on that page and the best of the existing screenshots in our gallery as inspiration. At the very least, we need to illustrate: - 3D box tool - SVG filters - more live path effects (we only have one screenshot for path along path) - gradient tool's on-canvas mid stops - a (meaningful) illustration of the color management at work - new extensions - new grid and guide features - perhaps something with custom markers, along the lines of http://needcoffee.deviantart.com/art/Gradients-To-Path-78650259 - any complex, stunning, impressive Inkscape art even if it does not use the new features :) See the release notes for a list of all new features: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 You can send your submissions to me for publishing on the site. Thanks in advance! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Import locale problem
by Brian Vanderburg II 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

I've installed lxml. First I installed it into the python path for inkscape (C:\program files\inkscape\python\...) but that did not work. Apparently inkscape is using the main python install (C:\Python25), so I reinstalled it there and it worked. The scripts work now, but still have a major annoyance. The scripts constantly complain about importing 'locale'. It seems that the module search path is causing it to first find 'C:\Program Files\Inkscape\locale', and not the 'C:\Python25\Lib\locale.py'. It only emits a warning (every time the script executes), and the script still works, but it is annoying. Since I don't need the locales I just removed the inkscape locale folder, but I still figure I'd report the problem. Brian Vanderburg II

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Help Support Libre Graphics Meeting 2008!
by Jon Phillips 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

I'm working with Dave neary, Louis Desjardins and Kamila (lead organizer this year) to do a big loud announcement about LGM 2008 in Poland! Here is my own blog post about. Please post your own! Take from mine! http://rejon.org/2008/04/01/support-the-libre-graphics-meeting-2008-in-pola… Can someone do big blog post about LGM 2008 fundraising campaign to raise 20k USD by friday APRIL 18 on inkscape.org...Also, if there is any other way to spread the news, that would be helpful...please others, blog about the campaign along with the widget...if there are businesses, or those with access to funding, now is the time to help out your favorite project! My blog post already filtered to Open Clip Art Library and the planets, but OFLB folks, need to figure out blog post there too, right? Jon ### Support the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 in Poland Donate here! http://pledgie.com/campaigns/613 What is the Libre Graphics Meeting? The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clipart Library and more. In its third edition, the organization needs your help! You can support your favorite graphics application, and ensure that the travel costs of as many volunteer developers as possible are paid to ensure that this edition of the conference is more successful that its predecessors. The conference is May 8 - 11 in Wroclaw, Poland. Where will the money go? We have kept costs associated with infrastructure to a minimum. Over 80% of the conference budget will be spent on subsidizing travel and accommodation costs for developers. $20K is the goal to raise by Friday April 18! Help out! A non-profit organization All donations will be made to the conference organizers via the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 tax exempt US-based non-profit, so donations will be tax deductible for US taxpayers. We would like to thank the GNOME Foundation for their support. ### -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA CHINA PH +86 1-360-282-8624 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat, Skype: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Projects: http://rejon.org/projects

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Social News Sites: Inkscape 0.46 Announcement
by ryan lerch 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

here are a couple links to social news sites for the inkscape news announcement, please support them and help spread the good word about inkscape... http://digg.com/software/Inkscape_0_46_released http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=603170 http://news.deviantart.com/article/45610/ are there any more i have missed? cheers, ryanlerch

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Inkscape in the press
by rygle 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

I think we should start an "In the press" page, like on the OpenOffice site. For instance - Inkscape 0.46 has been given a "Softpedia pick 5/5"; http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Inkscape.sh… They say "Awards are given to products that we think are excellent and above average in their category. Awards are given based on our experience and judgement, and only to products which the majority of our reviewers agree deserve it." So they think Inkscape is "excellent and above average" in its category. But we all knew that. Rygle. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-in-the-press-tp16432133p16432133.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Fwd: Elisa moves to bzr
by Bryce Harrington 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Interesting post from one project recently moved to bzr. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Loïc Minier <loic.minier@...1798...> ----- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:27:05 +0200 From: Florian Boucault <florian@...693...> To: elisa <elisa@...1936...> Subject: [Elisa] Elisa organisation changes X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Hello Eliseros, After careful thinking, the Elisa team has decided to move over to Bazaar for version control and to Launchpad for bug tracking and release management. ** Why the move? ** The Elisa project is all about people making their own customised media center that fits their own particular needs. This is the rationale behind its fully pluggable architecture. In order to allow a similar flexibility for developers, it made complete sense to use a distributed version control system (DVCS). The choice between the myriad of existing DVCSes was driven by a simplicity of use enabling easy contribution and flexibility to adapt to any possible workflow we may need in the future. For all these reasons Elisa's source code, which was previously versioned using Subversion, is from now on stored in Bazaar branches. Bazaar is well documented and has nice tutorials help people get started such as this one: http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/mini-tutorial/index.html Obviously a full move to a decentralised working style meant that a good tool was needed to keep track of what is going on in the branches, bugs wise and also features wise. After some experiments with various tools that could have done the job, Launchpad proved to cover the use cases well and enable the kind of collaboration we all want to encourage. ** Teams and their purpose ** We are going to setup 2 launchpad teams. The first team, called elisa-developers, will be opened to all the developers that have read and signed the Fluendo copyright assignment document. Everyone will be able to branch bazaar branches registered by the elisa-developers team, but only the members will have write access to them. The second team, called elisa-contributors, will be open to everyone. Every member will have write access to the branches under the team. This team will make it easy for groups of developers to work together on their branches whenever and however they want to. ** Contribution processes ** Code ---- The first thing needed to start hacking on Elisa is a branch of an existing branch. The main development branch is at: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elisa-developers/elisa/main We never push directly to the main branch as we want all the changes to be reviewed first. When a developer wants some code to be committed, he sends a merge request to the elisa-commits@...1936... mailing list by using the bzr send command, which is documented here: http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html#sending-changes On the mailing list the changes are reviewed by one or more developers and, once they have been approved, they are merged into the main branch. The merging procedure varies depending on which bundle the changed code belongs. Changes to core, -base, -good, and -ugly have to be reviewed by at least two developers, changes to -bad by at least one developer. The last reviewer merges the changes back into the branch. We will setup a Bundle Buggy instance to track the merge requests and the reviews. The voting system used by Bundle Buggy is defined here: http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/help Bug reports ----------- Bug reports are stored in Launchpad which allows a per branch fine tracking of bugs. There is nothing really new here apart from the ability to have cross projects bug which will prove fairly useful in Elisa's case since it depends on many other libraries (eg. Pigment, GStreamer, etc.). Specifications -------------- Task specifications for new features will be centralised in one place in the upcoming Elisa's wiki and tracked in Launchpad blueprints allowing a quick and easy overview of all the current work being done and the various branches related to them. A quick task definition is written in Launchpad blueprints itself whereas more detailed information will be stored in Elisa's wiki and will contain: summary, rationale, use cases, implementation plan and whatever is necessary to communicate around the task. That's it for now. Thank you for reading so far. Hopefully all these changes and decisions will help make Elisa go forward by allowing everyone to collaborate as painlessly as possible. If there are any questions please do not hesitate to ask. The Elisa team ** Bundles policies ** Elisa's plugins are sorted into bundles depending on various criteria such as quality, dependencies, licensing, etc. Currently 4 bundles exist: base, good, bad and ugly. The policy is heavily based on GStreamer's (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/splitup.html) Base ---- - Must be of good code quality and fully functional - Must be well-tested (unittests, good code coverage, etc.) - Must comply with Elisa dual license model or be under MIT or a BSD license - Cannot depend on external libraries that Elisa core does not depend on Good ---- - Must be of good code quality and fully functional - Must be well-tested (unittests, good code coverage, etc.) - Must comply with Elisa dual license model or be under MIT or a BSD license Bad --- - Bad quality code (coding style not respected, etc.) - Not very well tested, not mature - Must comply with Elisa dual license model or be under MIT or a BSD license - Might have potential legal issues Ugly ---- - Must be of good code quality and fully functional - Must be well-tested (unittests, good code coverage, etc.) - Not complying with Elisa dual license model (eg. can be GPL only) - Might have potential legal issues -- warthogs mailing list warthogs@...1799... https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/warthogs ----- End forwarded message -----

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Adobe Mars
by Tobias Jakobs 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, I just read about Adobe Mars[1] and thought it is interesting for some of the developers here. [1] http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars Here a copy from the homepage: "Mars is the code name for technology being developed by Adobe that provides an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based representation of Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Adobe(R) PDF is a universal file format for representing documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system used to create them and of the output device on which they are to be displayed or printed. XML is a cross-platform, extensible, and text-based standard for representing data that was created so that richly structured documents could be used over the web. The Mars Project is an XML friendly representation of PDF documents. Already an open specification, PDF is the global standard for trusted, high fidelity electronic documentation. The Mars file format incorporates additional standards such as SVG, PNG, JPG, JPG2000, OpenType, Xpath and XML into a ZIP-based document container. The Mars plug-ins for Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8 enable creation and recognition of the Mars file format by Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8 software. For additional Mars information see the documents below and check back for regular updates. The Mars Project is early release software and we welcome your feedback. Please use the feedback link below to request features, make comments and report problems. Please understand that this is an early release and is not yet feature complete. The file format contained within the Mars plug-ins is subject to change and using this technology for production may require you to make significant changes to your documents at a later date. Content created with this release may not be compatible with the shipping version." Regards, Tobias

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Where is lxml?
by Brian Vanderburg II 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Just a question about the windows release. I know on Linux, normally only the main files would be included and any dependencies would be managed by the package manager. But for windows, since the Inkscape installer includes everything else (GTK binaries, Python binaries, etc), why not go ahead and include lxml in the release. Otherwise the many of the scripts won't run and some users may have a time figuring out why or how to download it. Brian Vanderburg II

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Inkscape 0.46 Announced on DeviantART
by Josh Andler 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

The announcement was posted here: http://news.deviantart.com/article/45610/ If you have a DeviantART account, please log in, visit that link, and show the article some love with the digg-like heart thingy. ;) Congrats to everyone! Win32 devs and testers, a huge kudos to you all for pulling things together in such short order (given the severity of some issues)! Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape 0.46 save bug (I think)
by Donn 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, I fetched the (stable 0.46) source and compiled on Kubuntu Gutsy two days ago. In playing around I noticed that when you save your file it does not append the .svg to the filename, even if "inkscape svg" is chosen in the types combo. You can do it manually, however. I could be doing something dumb, but thought I'd mention it. \d

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GSoC and Text
by Gail Carmichael 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Snapping (WAS: GSOC 2008 / Technical Drawing in Inkscape)
by Diederik van Lierop 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

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[GSoC2008] deadline extension
by Alexandre Prokoudine 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi, Deadline for student applications submission is officially extended by one week. The new deadline for student applications is Monday, April 7, 2008. Timeline in FAQ is updated. Alexandre

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problems in libgdl
by Jon A. Cruz 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

For the docking... I've seen these warnings, some of which might be significant. If anyone can give them a look, that would be helpful libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c:99: warning: unused parameter 'data' libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c: In function 'gdl_dock_object_get_type': libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c:99: warning: missing initializer libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c:99: warning: (near initialization for 'object_info.value_table') libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c: In function 'gdl_dock_param_get_type': libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c:833: warning: missing initializer libgdl/gdl-dock-object.c:833: warning: (near initialization for 'tinfo.base_init') libgdl/gdl-dock-master.c: In function 'gdl_dock_master_get_type': libgdl/gdl-dock-master.c:129: warning: missing initializer libgdl/gdl-dock-master.c:129: warning: (near initialization for 'object_info.value_table') (several more of those) libgdl/gdl-dock-item.c:276: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type libgdl/gdl-dock.c: In function 'gdl_dock_dock_request': libgdl/gdl-dock.c:847: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned libgdl/gdl-dock.c:850: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned libgdl/gdl-dock.c:854: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned libgdl/gdl-dock.c:857: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned libgdl/gdl-dock-item-grip.c: In function 'gdl_dock_item_grip_expose': libgdl/gdl-dock-item-grip.c:147: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type libgdl/gdl-dock-item-grip.c:150: warning: passing argument 2 of 'gdk_draw_rectangle' from incompatible pointer type libgdl/gdl-dock-item-grip.c:138: warning: unused variable 'item_or_child_has_focus' libgdl/gdl-dock-paned.c:568: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned libgdl/gdl-dock-paned.c:573: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned libgdl/gdl-dock-paned.c:577: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned

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Joining the task force?
by Tali Gutman 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi everybody, Thought I'd join in to the party this summer. I want to fix the pdf-exports-with-opacities bug, but I can do some other stuff too :) (In other words, this is just "Hello". Will get the code in the weekend maybe :) ) -- - Tali

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no native windows dialog on pre4-2
by Mihaela 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Open and import dialogs are "old" style on pre4-2 on winXP. Is that expected?

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GSoC 2008: Student Application Deadline
by Aaron Spike 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The deadline for student applications for Google Summer of Code 2008 is steadily approaching. I've seen nothing but fantastic ideas here on the list this year. If you are a student and you haven't posted an app to the list yet, don't be bashful and don't let that discourage you from applying. I encourage all students to finish up your proposals and be careful to submit them before the deadline: March 31: 5:00 PM PDT / 00:00 UTC April 1, 2008 Many students have already submitted their applications. We thank all of you for that. Good luck to all. Aaron Spike P.S. I've attempted to copy this to the email addresses from the list for every student who posted but hasn't yet submitted an application. I sincerely apologize if I missed you. Please be sure to submit your app!

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