Hello, About the virtual machine (VM) that Steffen Macke has published at http://dia-installer.de/developer/index.html.en :
(Thanks to Steffen for going to the trouble to build this VM and make it available.) I think there are some users of Dia who: * may need to use the current development version of Dia because of fixes or added features in that version; * understand that the current development version may have bugs that are worse than in the current released version, and are willing to un-install & re-install to switch from one version to the other if needed (but hopefully not often); and * for whom a VM wouldn't work because of some combination of the following: 1. their computer may be just slow enough (maybe with lots of applications running) that running Dia in a VM would result in the VM or the host OS, or both, being too slow, but running Dia in the host OS (with no VM) would be fast enough; 2. not convenient to download 1.1 GB (not everyone has a fast, reliable Internet connection); 3. might not want the VM screen to obscure windows on the host OS (I am not sure if resizing the VM screen frequently would be compatible with the window manager on the VM, or possibly even with Dia itself.); 4. (I am not sure if VMWare Player allows mapping a folder on the guest OS to a folder on the host OS so that files can be easily transferred between the two. If not, some users might not want to deal with moving files between the host OS and the VM. Even drag- and-drop might get too tedious after a while.) Would it be possible for someone to publish a procedure for installing the required tools on a plain Ubuntu 10.10 install? Are most of the required tools already available in Ubuntu, or quickly accessible by "apt-get" or similar? Does the "icon to pull the latest Dia sources from git master and compile them" launch a shell script (or similar) that is a very small file and could be easily distributed? Thanks in advance for help. _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
