Hi, all!
I've been busy with other things for the last 7 months, but I want to make up for it somewhat. Sorry!
I've been told that the "devlibs" bundle on Modevia seriously needs updating, so I will start doing that with what people need, and what they agree upon.
After adding msvcr80.dll to the devlibs, I was told that Python's libs need updating in general. We have been wanting to use Python 2.6 for over a year now, but a couple of the dependencies, (lxml and numpy) have held us back.
I looked at their project pages, and it appears that there are 2.6-usable win32 binary builds available for them.
So, the question is: is everyone comfortable with updating Python to 2.6? It's the version 'at the precipice.' Being the last version before 3.0, there is some expectation of permanence.
Things work correctly now for 2.5, but moving to 2.6 will allow updating UniConvertor to 1.1.4, which helps toward fixing a bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996/comments/39
bob (ishmal)
On 1/1/10 11:13, Bob Jamison wrote:
So, the question is: is everyone comfortable with updating Python to 2.6? It's the version 'at the precipice.' Being the last version before 3.0, there is some expectation of permanence.
Things work correctly now for 2.5, but moving to 2.6 will allow updating UniConvertor to 1.1.4, which helps toward fixing a bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996/comments/39
adding some pointers to other related reports in the bug tracker:
Bug #448285 “lxml version bundled with Inkscape is old”: need to coordinate bundled python module version across platforms https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/448285
Bug #387946 in Inkscape: “UniConvertor called with wrong filename”: discussion about updating to python26 on win32 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/387946
Bug #387446 “Extension deprecation warnings”: 'DeprecationWarning' when using some older extensions with python26 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/387446
and maybe:
Bug #482093 “inclusion of pythonw.exe in 0.47pre4 causes 3rd party commandline usage problems”: issues with the bundled python binary when using inkscape.exe in a script https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/482093
~suv
Hi Bob, nice to hear from you!
De : ~suv <suv-sf@...58...> On 1/1/10 11:13, Bob Jamison wrote:
So, the question is: is everyone comfortable with updating Python to 2.6? It's the version 'at the precipice.' Being the last version before 3.0, there is some expectation of permanence.
Things work correctly now for 2.5, but moving to 2.6 will allow updating UniConvertor to 1.1.4, which helps toward fixing a bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996
Ubuntu already uses Python 2.6, and I've tested a modified win32 version (with Python 2.6.2 and 2.6.3) on XP, and it works well on both systems. -- Nicolas
Bob Jamison wrote:
So, the question is: is everyone comfortable with updating Python to 2.6? It's the version 'at the precipice.' Being the last version before 3.0, there is some expectation of permanence.
I'm comfortable with 2.6. And I thought too that 2.6 was the last version before 3, but we're both wrong. There is going to be a 2.7!
Aaron Spike
I would be happy to see Python 2.6 and also uniconvertor 1.1.4. One of the issues that has come up recently (on Windows) is .PLT output which requires both of these as a minimum.
- and it is indeed good to see you back again!
Alvin
On 1/1/10 11:13, Bob Jamison wrote:
I've been told that the "devlibs" bundle on Modevia seriously needs updating, so I will start doing that with what people need, and what they agree upon.
another related bug / crash report: recent findings in Bug #221712 “Inkscape's Vanishing Act (the disappearing program) - updated” [1] indicate that updating the pango libs prevents crashes in libcairo-2.dll.
~suv
Sharing some of the Windows specific dev knowledge on the wiki (for example, how the devlibs are built and updated) would be immensely helpful. Also consider rebuilding the devlibs MinGW with shared libgcc, to fix this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/173116
Regards, Krzysztof
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~suv