11:27 a.m.
Dear Developers,
I need your expertise or history knowlege to understand extensions that
use the uniconverter: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Uniconver
tor
On my system (Ubuntu 16.04) the uniconverter is broken, the package
python-uniconv doesn't contain the sk1lib libraries and those libraries
are in fact not available at all to debian, either through apt or
through pypi. There is an option to download from their website, but
random debs you find online seems unseemly.
So my main question is: Have we been shipping broken extensions to all
our linux users? Has anyone noticed?
The debian bug report about the missing library doesn't seem to have
been finished, so I don't even know if up to date ubuntus contain a
fix. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820748
I did notice the library being shipped in our MacOSX build (and
probably in our windows build) is that complete? Does it work there?
I'd like to get these extensions fixed as part of the inkscape-
extensions-1.0 package of cleanup, code quality and refactoring work.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
4:34 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:27:50PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
So my main question is: Have we been shipping broken extensions to
all
our linux users? Has anyone noticed?
well, surely to debian and ubuntu, and actually I haven't received any
report, except that bug you found.
The debian bug report about the missing library doesn't seem to
have
been finished, so I don't even know if up to date ubuntus contain a
fix. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820748
debian buster and ubuntu bionic have removed uniconverter as a result,
if that was your question.
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8:43 p.m.
On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 09:34 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
debian buster and ubuntu bionic have removed uniconverter as a
result, if that was your question.
That looks like the case:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/inkscape
The suggested package uniconverter is gone, so it looks like we're
going to have to rethink that functionality. (thankfully this won't
stop inkscape from being installed as it's not a hard dep)
Thanks Mattia,
Best Regards, Martin Owens
9:13 p.m.
Am 12.04.2018 um 04:27 schrieb Martin Owens:
Dear Developers,
I need your expertise or history knowlege to understand extensions that
use the uniconverter: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Uniconver
tor
On my system (Ubuntu 16.04) the uniconverter is broken, the package
python-uniconv doesn't contain the sk1lib libraries and those libraries
are in fact not available at all to debian, either through apt or
through pypi. There is an option to download from their website, but
random debs you find online seems unseemly.
So my main question is: Have we been shipping broken extensions to all
our linux users? Has anyone noticed?
The debian bug report about the missing library doesn't seem to have
been finished, so I don't even know if up to date ubuntus contain a
fix. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820748
I did notice the library being shipped in our MacOSX build (and
probably in our windows build) is that complete? Does it work there?
I'd like to get these extensions fixed as part of the inkscape-
extensions-1.0 package of cleanup, code quality and refactoring work.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Hi Martin,
we do not ship uniconvertor on Windows anymore since updating to Python
2.7 as the (previously included) version of uniconvertor 1.1.5 available
for download from
https://sk1project.net/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor...
still uses Python 2.6 and therefore was not even compatible with
official CPython anymore.
For the time being there are still instructions for using this old
version available at
https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#how-install-uniconvertor-windows
but this basically installs a full Python 2.6 distribution in parallel
only to allow running uniconvertor (i.e. not overly sensible)
I guess there are two options:
* Figure out how to package uniconvertor properly and switch to
updated packages. Source code is available at
https://github.com/sk1project/uniconvertor
however it seems active development lately shifted to an updated
version of "UniConvertor 2.0" and it's not obvious if usage of
either package for Inkscape is straightforward.
* Drop Uniconvertor and related extensions (especially if we can not
motivate anybody to support it properly).
While I know a few people still use it (there are occasional support
requests for it) I think it was mostly used for CDR input which is
now provided by libcdr and if it was widely used I suspect we'd see
a lot more related questions.
Regards,
Eduard
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