Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape root dir tidying thoughts

I've emailed the Adaptagrams dev to see if he's keen to press a release. Otherwise, we can package it as Martin suggests :) AV On 18 July 2017 at 06:17, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 07:12:13PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: >> On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 21:40 +0100, Alex Valavanis wrote: >> > As I understand it, the only reason why we maintain a fork of >> > Adaptagrams is that there isn't an upstream release yet. >> > >> > Is anyone in touch with the upstream Adaptagrams dev (M Wybrow)? If >> > we could persuade him to make a release tarball, perhaps we can get >> > it adopted by some distros... and then finally drop our fork! >> >> It's not necessary to have a cooperative upstream (though it is much >> nicer) you can build the tarballs from a fork, publish them on github >> and kick the distros into packaging mode. > > That might be a good practice to adopt in general for situations like > this. > > Bryce > >> I would have preferred we do it this way than bringing in the >> adaptergrams code into our codebase. But I understand there are >> complications with different platforms. >> >> Best Regards, Martin Owens