On Friday 22 February 2008 12:08:26 pm Craig Bradney wrote: > On Friday 22 February 2008 22:33:15 John Culleton wrote: > > I am sure all of you are bored to tears with descriptions of my attempts > > at compiling 1.3.5 svn on Slackware 12, Slackware current and Kubuntu > > unstable. Now let me ask two related questions: > > > > What Linux platform is optimal for compiling 1.3.5 svn? > > I would say OpenSuse or Gentoo or Debian, but I have no recent development > experience on RHEL/Fedora/*buntu/Mandriva etc to count them out. I cannot > see why any of them wouldn't be ok assuming they have the latest packages > that we like to develop against. > > > What platform(s) do the developers of Scribus use? > > We use (in no particular order): > - OpenSuse, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware.. perhaps some more > - XP > - OSX > > Craig
Thanks! I need to talk to the Slackware guy and follow in his/her footsteps. Can you forward this post to him? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
