On Tuesday 06 April 2010 12:19:15 Carl Symons wrote: > > Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:00:37 -0400 > > From: John Culleton <john@...1668...> > > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Why Bazaar? > > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net&gt; > > Message-ID: <201004061200.37373.john@...1668...> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Why oh why do we need yet another depository program? I can handle > > svn. I can even handle cmake, though it is a pain. But why not make > > the nightly update of Inkscape 48 available as a plain old tar ball? > > > > The leaders of this project need to understand that users like me > > use a lot of open source software, Open COBOL, Tiny COBOL, Gimp, > > Scribus, Gvim, Mozilla in all its variants, Tcl/Tk and so on. Most > > of these projects stick to the familiar ./configure, make, make > > install sequence. Scribus just to be difficult insists on the cmake > > route, and I have finally puzzled that out. I can handle svn > > (replacement for cvs) with a little help. But what is Bazaar > > (perhaps bizarre would be a better name) and who else uses it? > > Bazaar is a distributed version control system that offers many > features that are anti-bizarre. For a software development > project--particularly one that is physically dispersed and has > multiple levels of commit privileges such as most open source > projects--Bazaar offers substantial benefits. The > Canonical/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/?buntu crew has moved most revision control > to Bazaar...because bzr makes it easy for marginally-techies to > contribute. This site explains > further...http://jam-bazaar.blogspot.com/2007/10/bazaar-vs-subversion. >ht ml > > The leaders of projects are not in cahoots about what system to use > for versioning, make-ing, etc. There is no FOSS governing body > dictating tool selection. And for every "user like me", there are many > users not like you that also have preferences. > > "Scribus just to be difficult..." Well probably not "just" with the > intention of being difficult. It might have something to do with--make > is Unix-ish, while Scribus is cross platform. Many users of open > source software run on platforms other than ...N*X. Many M$ Office > users have abandoned Publisher in favor of Scribus. > > Chin up, John. These technical details are part of the FOSS fun. 8^) > > Carl OK now I have bazaar (or bzr). Where can I find the script that downloads, compiles and installs Inkscape 48? Please note that I am not a developer but just an end user. Slackwaar Linux 13, if anyone cares. Thanks for any assistance.