Am 20.07.2017 um 12:48 schrieb C R:
Tav is busy this week, but he and I are mostly in charge of this bug at the moment. I'll bug him Monday about it again.
Great! Good to know you'll be looking into it.


Regarding the print bug I heard back from a cairo developer and I'm confident to ship a Windows release with my patch applied, so I guess we can mark that "blocker" as resolved.
I'll look into the remaining clipping issue if I find the time. If I can solve it before 0.92.2 I'd be happy, but if it ships as-is it's probably acceptable, too.


As for MSYS2: As there were no further concerns I'll go for it. I was able to sort out a very recent change that broke XP compatibility (https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/2709) so we should be all set.


Regards,
Eduard



-C

On 20 Jul 2017 11:10, "Eduard Braun" <eduard.braun2@...173...> wrote:
So, quick update

Am 16.07.2017 um 13:38 schrieb Eduard Braun:
I have a list of three items that we should address before a 0.92.2 release. The first two are "simple" bugs which I think are too bad to ship another release with them (i.e. "blockers"):
  • Windows print bug ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1665768 ).
    Our mingw-w64 based builds (devlibs64 and MSYS2) currently crash for many people when attempting to print. I was finally able to reproduce the bug on a machine I control, so I hope I'll be able to debug it soon. I'll keep you updated. (Any help is obviously appreciated)
I was able to come up with a cairo patch that avoids the crash: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101833
Unfortunately I have no experience with cairo, so I don't really know if what I'm doing makes sense and there was no answer by cairo-devs yet, so I'm unsure on how to proceed...
The prints I tested with the patched cairo show some weird issues with clipping which might highlight a more fundamental issue though, so there's still work to do, but at least we can provide a build that does not crash when printing...

  • Line height bugs (there were more than one if I'm not mistaken): What's the current status on them?
    I was not actively involved in the discussions and have never touched the relevant code, but from my own experiences and comments from a lot of people at work this is a serious deal-breaker for any productive work. I'd like to ask everybody who knows that part of our codebase and/or tracked the bugs/reports to make 100% sure they're all sorted out and report back!
No comments on this issue? Who was looking into the line-height bug(s)?
I don't want to nag but this is one of these issues that have the potential to produce very bad PR if we don't get it right for yet another release!

Regards,
Eduard

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