On Sunday 30 January 2005 14:44, Andreas Speck at home wrote: > Hi there, > ~ I know Scribus and Windows seems to be a dead issue, but I still feel > it would be good to have more than just the Cygwin version... > > With the new QT porting efforts to Windows (see > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=440993), would it be > possible to build Scribus under Windows, using the QT port?
Unknown at this moment. > I never even tried to build anything under Windows (and don't have > access to a Windows machine at home, and at work I'm not really paid to > build software...), but maybe someone can say if it would be worth a > try. I saw that Kexi (the KDE database project - > http://www.kexi-project.org/about.html) has been build for Windows, not > using Cygwin. > Would one use the Cygwin source of Scribus, or the normal source code > (is there any difference anyway)? Maybe someone tried already and can > send me their binaries? > > While I really want to move away from using QuarkXpress at work, I'm a > bit hesitant to use Linux only applications. Cygwin + KDE is not really > an option, as our equipment is too old and would make working with such > a setup a pain. > I'm happy myself to use Linux only (and didn't use Windows even once > this year yet), but I experienced quite some problems with interns and > volunteers (and colleagues) in a Linux environment. For an organisation > which depends a lot on volunteers coming in and doing some work, this is > quite a challenge, and presently I prefer a dual boot environment, and > the use of software which runs under both OS (Mozilla Thunderbird and > Firefox, OpenOffice, Gimp, Gaim, Inkscape, etc...). However, such a > thing doesn't exist yet, and it would be very very useful if it could be > done with Scribus... any ideas? > > Andreas A true native port to Windows would require a thorough knowledge of Scribus code and Qt on windows, well as knowledge of Windows fonts and printing systems. Its developer constraints which prevent us spending much time on a port at the moment. Peter
