On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:42:50AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:56:04PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > >
> > > > chapter 13: rustc 1.25.0 1.28.0 #9168
> > > rustc-1.28.0 works fine for me with a single change: "quiet-tests" is not
> > > supported anymore. Commenting that line out let me compile and use it. I
> > > did
> > > not investigate further consequences (of disabling quiet-tests).
> > Did you run the tests ? Thst option was supposed to make them less
> > noisy.
> No. I generally do not run tests. Therefore my wording ("did not investigate
> further consequences of disabling quiet-tests"). rustc is rather ugly to
> build and if stuff needing it (librsvg, firefox) is happy, I am too ;-) I'm
> aware this isn't enough for the quality of the book, but that's why I'm just
> commenting instead of editing.
>
I agree about (most) tests, and the ugliness of building rust ;-)
> > > > chapter 10: librsvg 2.42.2 2.42.7 #10477
> > > librsvg-2.42.7 works fine for me (e.g. in inkscape) without changes, as
> > > did
> > > a couple of inbetween versions.
> > Are you using the version of cairo in the book ? From memory, the
> > first newer version needed a non-stable version of cairo, which is
> > why this has been held.
> *checking* No. 1.15.12 instead of 1.14.12. Sorry. I tend to decide what's
> stable enough for me myself. In case of librsvg I only had in mind that it
> started to require rustc from 2.41, but the book was already beyond that
> point, so I didn't check further dependencies.
>
Fair enough. I'm hoping nothing in gnome *requires* a newer
librsvg, because lots of things use cairo and would need to be
retested.
ĸen
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