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release issues
by bulia byak 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

- The About screen is not there yet. Has anyone contacted http://anarres.deviantart.com/ to get the SVG for #30 from him/her? - My patch for the freeze bug is not committed still. Release wardens, please take note. - Consequently, pre3 is not out yet. - Release notes for Ishmal and Joncruz still not filled out. - No one bothered to respond to my crash report on Win98. Does this mean we'll have to release with that bug? - No one submitted any screenshots for the site. - Reck Beton reports (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751&group_…) that we're having a number of regressions with regard to the W3C test suite, compared to earlier 0.42 builds. In particular, he says that styling tests no longer work. Peter, please look into this because that is an important feature touted in the release notes. - Mental has filed another fix-before-release bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1240029&group_id=… If JonCruz will not take care of that, patches are welcome. - I _think_ that issue lists such as this one should ideally be compiled by the current release wardens, not me... -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [santiagoroza@...400...: Inkscape / GTK+]
by Robert Staudinger 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Yes, I definitely agree. After all, we"re application developers first, > package distributors a distant second. We need to be looking for ways > to move that responsibility upstream, as we"ve been able to do with the > unix packages. We used to put great attention into crafting debian, > gentoo, rpm, etc. packages each release for each distro, but as time has > passed and as we"ve gotten into more and more distros, today we are able > to mostly leave that work to the experts and focusing on just putting > out a good core package. Being able to take that same approach with the > Windows package would sure simplify things; consider how much trouble > the Windows build has been this time through, and the extra work > required for testing and fixing it up. If another group were able to > take the responsibility for this, it would simplify our release process > and enable the Inkscape releasers to focus even more on the software, > rather than the packaging. The gladewin32 project provides dependency packages for the win32 version of gnumeric if i'm not mistaken. It is very well maintained too. Maybe there would be a way to work together? Best, Rob (not affiliated with any of the projects mentioned)

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Win32 build notes
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Oh, I'm answering my own question. Here is where ishmal put the build notes: http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html I need someone to go through these steps and verify the build (I don't have cycles right now). -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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possible addition to topic in about> tutorials
by Jared Thompson Test Account 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

in the help > tutorials > tutorial-tips.svg under the heading of "Entering Unicode Values" and it gives the example of Ctrl+U 2 0 1 4, there should also be placed a website so people can look up the codes for commonly used characters, if there is a website that details that. http://www.unicode.org/ucd/ The reason why I say this, is for instance, in our company, we build ads, and it is necessary to do lists, and tm's etc a few more usefull codes: 00AE registered sign 2122 trade mark 2022 bullet etc..

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showstopper crash on win 98 & release plans
by bulia byak 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

I see in Jabber someone suggested doing the release on Monday. I think it's not realistic for these reasons: 1. The pre2 still has no windows exe. What's up with it? This is CRITICALLY important because after pre1, Bob switched to the new libraries, which are very different (e.g. include gtk-wimp). So we currently have NO prerelease for the users to test these libs (apart from daily builds). It's a pretty drastic upgrade and I insist that we need AT LEAST TWO full prereleases, each with sufficient time allowance, to minimally test it. 2. To illustrate the above point, I just found a crash bug on Windows 98 (Russian) with the latest daily build, Inkscape0507151800.zip. Namely, when I use the Open dialog to go to a directory with a Russian name, opening any file from there crashes it. What's worse, it remebers that initial directory in the prefs, and when I do File>Open next time, it crashes immediately. The program becomes simply unusable until you delete your prefs file. I then tested the same on a WIn2k (Russian) system, there it works fine. However I don't think we can release it with such a bug even if it only affects Win 98 non-English versions. Here's what I get in an error box when it crashes: Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0) aborting... Then I get another box with: Runtime Error! Program: C:\INK-LATEST\INKSCAPE.EXE abnormal program termination Then I get yet another box with two messages: Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0) aborting... Pango-WARNING (recursed) **: Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 7" falling back to "Sans 7" aborting... And then again the "Runtime error" box (so 4 boxes in total before it finally dies). I then tried to get a backtrace but I could not, because when run from gdb (included with the build), it crashes right on startup: C:\ink-latest>gdb.exe inkscape.exe GNU gdb 5.2.1 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"... (gdb) run Starting program: C:\ink-latest/inkscape.exe Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x01c89fb1 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x01c89fb1 in ?? () #1 0x00000187 in ?? () #2 0xc95e2824 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x54890187 (gdb) All this worked fine in the builds with previous libraries (without gtk-wimp). 3. And last not least, the "freeze on quit with Transform dialog" but seems to be harder than it seemed at first. Looks like there's not much progress there. And looks like if it's fixed, the fix will involve some pretty deep and dangerous changes, so it will need to be tested for quite some time. 4. Smaller issues: nsis patch not committed yet (waiting for a Windows-savvy tester?), and the new About is not in CVS yet. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Wanted: Windows user to review inkscape.nsi patches
by Peter Moulder 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Release wardens are supposed to act as reviewer for the patches posted to the tracker, but I don't have access to a Windows machine, nor any other reason to learn NSIS. Can we have someone to act as release warden for inkscape.nsi ? Documentation for NSIS files is at http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/ so you don't really need to have any previous NSIS experience to be a better reviewer than I. (I haven't yet asked Kees as to whether he has access to a Windows machine or any familiarity with NSIS.) pjrm.

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Release Issues Report 3: 6 remaining
by Kees Cook 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

- [scislac] The About screen is not updated. Status: Winner is MIA. Waiting until after pre3, then moving to 2nd place. - [ishmal, joncruz] Release notes for Ishmal and Joncruz still not filled out. - [ishmal] Win98 crash Status: if ishmal finds an easy fix, we need to take it, else we release with the bug - [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions. Status: Peter needs to take a look and verify/fix. - [theadib, ishmal] Bug 1230742 (etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc broken in windows build) Status: may be fixed with: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1241293&group_id=… Needs Linux cross-compile testing. - [?] untranslatable strings in Transformation & Swatches dialog Status: strings need to be found and localized. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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unlocalizable stuff
by Arpad Biro 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hi, Taking a look at today's CVS it seems the Transformation and the Swatches dialog still has unlocalizable strings. Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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status (questions from desktopcon)
by Jon Phillips 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hello guys, Bryce and I both presented yesterday which went quite well. We hung out with Carl Worth, Keith Packard and others after our talks and discussed Cairo, etc. More on that later... Anyhow, people here at ddc are asking about the status of the Inkscape release? Where is the release at? Also, is there anyone Bryce and I should talk to about libraries, etc? We can do some mediating... (www.desktopcon.org) Man, it is great to get recognition for Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library. It seems our projects are fairly well known now :) Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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Timing for last pre-release?
by Ted Gould 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hey guys, So, it looks like Bulia has fixed the transform bug, and the nsi installer has been checked in... when should the last planned prerelease be? (assuming that it is 'bug free' of course :) ) --Ted

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