On Sunday 12 December 2010 12:09:29 a.l.e wrote: > dear john, > > > I do wish that the Scribus team would declare something newer > > than 1.3.3.14 as stable. Newbie after Newbie downloads the > > obsolete version and then gets in trouble over the 1.3.3.14/1.3.5 > > divide in file formats. I understand the rigidity that now > > exists, but it is hurting our new members. The experienced > > Scribus users have all moved on to something in the 1.3.x cycle > > and I have moved on to 1.5.0. Once a more recent version is > > declared "stable" then the Debian etc. repositories will add it > > and the Windoze folks will be led to it by the Download pages. It > > won't do any harm and it will end the confusion. > > could you please stop mentioning that you use 1.5.0? > > that version is not meant to be used by normal users. > > it's nice that you can work with it. i also do. > > > but we should never mention it to people, who have problem with > their copy of scribus. > > it's really not ready for prime time! (even if it works for your > and my (limited) needs). > > > scribus 1.5svn is meant for testing. if somebody can use it to work > with it, well it's ok and he is welcome to do so. but we should > never advise other people to use it in production. never never > never never.* > > > > and concerning 1.3.x, you may have mentioned that 1.4 has reached > beta status: we can hope to have a fresh stable version in the > first few months of 2011. > > so, it's now really ok to suggest somebody missing features or > hitting bugs in 1.3.3.14 to switch to 1.3.9. > > > the future will be bright! > > ciao > a.l.e > > > > > * well, never... at least not as long as it has been stabilized a > bit... which won't happen before mid 2011 (not even for the most > optimist like me). > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I can mention what I do. You just mentioned that you use it also. I don't recommend it, but if I can do production with the bleeding edge version certainly a beginner at Scribus can be trusted with 1.3.9. The problem of 1.3.3.14 vs. later versions comes up daily. We need a later version declared stable. We are turning people off with this constant difficulty. -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
