On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:50, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > 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.
OK, we have a first klik://inkscape-latest recipe that utilizes the autopackage inkscape nightly builds. It is known to work on Kanotix (2005-04 version) and SUSE-10.0 for now. (Due to autopackage's way of design -- not meant to be extracted in a static way and repackaged by inferior systems such as klik :-) -- it may fail on other OS versions, especially the ones that are built with libstdc++.so.5 (instead of .so.6). -- But for those who are happy enough to see it working, it is really nice way to explore Inkscape. Bryce -- congrats to your current achievements with Inkscape! It was really interesting to play with the "0.43+devel, built Jan 4 2006" version :-) -- A funny "about" dialog you have -- really bleeding edge graphics :-) Cheers, Kurt > > Bryce > > Cheers, > Kurt >
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