It's very nice to see the overwhelming response to the bug review call. Thanks everyone.
Now, the other thing we need to do is, of course, finding more bugs to fix :) With the recent bugfixes, I think the time to test it in earnest has come. So I would like to ask if anyone is capable of providing periodic builds of Inkscape to be uploaded to SF as a testing/prerelease series, the same as Ted did for 0.39.
However the important thing about the 0.40 testing builds is that they must be linked statically. With all the new libraries we now use, and with all the reported incompatibilities of their versions, it is critically important that at least Boehm and libsigc++ are static, and maybe also gtkmm and others. This will make it so much easier for people to try out the builds. We will have to provide static builds of the final release, so why not start testing the static build process right now. Any volunteers?
I think that it would be a good idea to do a couple prereleases. I would build binaries but I don't think that many people are interested in PowerPC Linux binaries :) If I built a source package would people then build binaries off of that? Would that be best for everyone? I'm thinking this weekend for the first? Thoughts?
--Ted
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:29 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
It's very nice to see the overwhelming response to the bug review call. Thanks everyone.
Now, the other thing we need to do is, of course, finding more bugs to fix :) With the recent bugfixes, I think the time to test it in earnest has come. So I would like to ask if anyone is capable of providing periodic builds of Inkscape to be uploaded to SF as a testing/prerelease series, the same as Ted did for 0.39.
However the important thing about the 0.40 testing builds is that they must be linked statically. With all the new libraries we now use, and with all the reported incompatibilities of their versions, it is critically important that at least Boehm and libsigc++ are static, and maybe also gtkmm and others. This will make it so much easier for people to try out the builds. We will have to provide static builds of the final release, so why not start testing the static build process right now. Any volunteers?
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:19:17 -0700, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
I think that it would be a good idea to do a couple prereleases. I would build binaries but I don't think that many people are interested in PowerPC Linux binaries :) If I built a source package would people then build binaries off of that? Would that be best for everyone? I'm thinking this weekend for the first? Thoughts?
Source packages are good, but the whole point is to let people run it without compiling. So we absolutely need compiled builds, and static at that. Can't anyone do this?
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:19:17AM -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
would build binaries but I don't think that many people are interested in PowerPC Linux binaries :) If I built a source package would people
Actually, I am, but only for one reason: is the mouse cursor corrupted for you? On OSX, the various different mouse cursors for the shape tools is corrupted, but I haven't been able to figure out why. It's not just simple endianness.
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:25 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:19:17AM -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
would build binaries but I don't think that many people are interested in PowerPC Linux binaries :) If I built a source package would people
Actually, I am, but only for one reason: is the mouse cursor corrupted for you? On OSX, the various different mouse cursors for the shape tools is corrupted, but I haven't been able to figure out why. It's not just simple endianness.
No, I've had no problem with this. It must not be an endian thing. I can't get Inkscape running on Mac OS X... I'll try to do that sometime. Infact, I can't even get fink to work right.
--Ted
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:11:38PM -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
No, I've had no problem with this. It must not be an endian thing. I can't get Inkscape running on Mac OS X... I'll try to do that sometime. Infact, I can't even get fink to work right.
Once you've got the fink prereq's, I got it running. Of course that was pre-libgc, with version 0.39...
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Ted Gould wrote:
I think that it would be a good idea to do a couple prereleases. I would build binaries but I don't think that many people are interested in PowerPC Linux binaries :) If I built a source package would people then build binaries off of that? Would that be best for everyone? I'm thinking this weekend for the first? Thoughts?
Good idea. I should be able to do mandrake rpm's for these.
I'd also be able to help test gentoo ebuilds; I've not done much with creating ebuilds though, but could assist if someone else would be willing to set it up. I'd really like to see 0.40 get officially into Gentoo quickly.
Bryce
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