On Monday 02 January 2006 23:58, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 07:16:44AM +0000, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > > klik://xara-latest > > You may have heard of this formerly closed source producing company, > > which provides a vector drawing program for Windows. Well, now they > > are trying their luck with open sourcing their flagship product Xara > > Xtreme, and seeking the cooperation of the Inkscape folks. This klik > > package uses a precompiled binary from the vendor (in *.bz2 shape) > > and converts it into xara-latest.cmg. (Some Xara demo/sample files are > > also included with the klik package; you can open them by navigating > > to the somewhat unusual location /tmp/app/[number]/bin/Designs/ -- > > Don't ask!) > > Note this is a technology preview rather than the full Xara product.
Yes. And as such is has not yet the real editing enabled. It is only a viewer AFAICS. > The full product release will include the source code afaik. > > > klik://inkscape-latest > > Bryce will love that! Main input file is a Debian Sarge package from > > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~wolfi/inkscape/sarge/ . Unforch, > > this is not really "latest" -- the guy who builds the binaries does > > not update tooooo often. > > So, Bryce, if you can point me to a place on the net where there are > > weekly or nightly updated .debs (or .rpms/.tgzs) of Inkscape builds > > I'll modifiy the klik recipe with great pleasure to use these and > > provide more current Inkscape goodness to the world! ;-) > > That'd be in the 'Development Versions' section of this page: > > http://inkscape.org/download.php > > We no longer provide nightly RPMs (apparently people who want bleeding > edge stuff are using non-RPM distros), but there's a nightly autopackage > and of course the tarballs are there too. We'll try and see if we can make the .package format a fully supported input format for the klik *-to-cmg conversion process. In any case, by next weekend we should see again an up-to-date klik://inkscape-latest working that uses your nightly builds. > Bryce Cheers, Kurt
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