On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:53, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > > is there a windows version available? i had heard a rumor > > > So, as far as I know it is not possible to run Scribus nativ under > > Windows. But with the Cygwin-Environment as a Work-around you can use > > Scribus also under Windows :-) > > I've been asked (very nicely) by my employers to try and get a native > Windows version running under W2K and XP. To that end, they've bought me > some toys to play with. > > Unfortunately, as they're paying me to do this, it is probable that a > binary only version will be available (but all source changes will need > to be fed back into the project as per the terms of the GPL). No idea of > a timescale. I have a feeling that they want to make some money out of > it (which may mean that I will get annoyed and refuse to do it unless a > good chunk is fed back to the developer team) > > TTFN > > Paul
Actually with the recent performance improvements Paul has added, plus the conversion of Cygwin to GCC 3.x, would give Scribus a serious speed boost, compared to its current state. With decent hardware, it could run nicely - not as fast as native, but certainly usable. Scribus 0.8 on Cygwin is not as slow as you might think. The slowdown for KDE-Cygwin is i/o pure and simple. The only problem holding me back from investing more time on this is KDE-Cygwin is in a bit flux at the moment, working only with GCC 2.95 currently. They are working on getting Qt-free working better with GCC 3.x. Their most recent success was porting Kdevelop and Quanta to KDE-Cygwin. Quanta on Windows would be wonderful. Once they have KDE-Cygwin migrated to GCC 3.x, I'll put some more time into making this work. Regards, Peter
