On 2014-04-10 24:01 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
I would like to push out Inkscape 0.48.5 in the very near future (1-2 weeks at most), since a fair number of bugfixes have accumulated since the last stable release 15 months ago.
If you know of any simple bugs that can be fixed by backporting a few lines of code, please tag them with "backport-proposed" in the Launchpad bug tracker, so that I can fix them.
I could use some assistance with the following:
- Writing release notes
- Making binary packages for Windows and OSX
- Announcing the release on the website and mailing lists
Anyone wants to help?
Re OSX: the currently available packaging scripts are outdated and fail on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later versions of OS X. See also: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Notes_on_Packaging_for_OS_X
Possibly of interest: During the past months I have attempted to rewrite parts of the existing scripts to support creating a GTK+/Quartz based application bundle for trunk (0.91): https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu
A backport to stable 0.48.x is here: https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu-0.48.x
Teaser screenshot of latest stable build earlier today: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65084033/irc/stable-osxmenu-1.png
Both branches (and the available packages) have to be considered experimental at this stage: 1) the modified scripts (osx-build.sh and osx-app.sh) have not been vetted to work on other systems with dependencies installed in different prefixes: the main goal for now was to be able to produce working, self-containted relocatable application bundles which support (almost) as many features as installs on other platforms. A lot of necessary checks, e.g. for OS X and Xcode version (for compiler flags) need to be updated or added. 2) no updated documentation available about the process itself (from getting the required dependencies installed to compiling inkscape itself to creating the application bundle) 3) both branches have changes not only to scripts in 'packaging', but also in 'src' (for OS integration like global menubar and keyboard shortcut modifiers, and for relocation support). Since I don't really code in C/C++ myself, my primary goal was to make the required changes work as expected (which they do, mostly), but all these changes really need code review and a lot of help to improve/fix them (avoid mem leaks etc.). Some features are still pending (due to lack of skills and time).
A summary of open known issues is listed on the branch page: https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu
Some of the issues I would consider critical for the release of new GTK+/Quartz based OS X packages (stable or trunk): https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1046068 https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1116468 https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1302627 https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1024344
Regards, V
P.S: Please note: available packages for testing are currently shared via my personal Dropbox account (a free one, which has download limits for shared files). They are (from my point of view) at this stage not yet ready for wider testing (please don't post the dropbox links elsewhere, thx). Clayton Walker, Andy Fitzsimon and Michael New have been testing trunk builds on OS X Mavericks and provide(d) very helpful feedback.