mrdocs wrote: > Hi, > > We have unfrozen the anoncvs syncs as of last night. > > Updating from cvs should not be too difficult, but a *lot* of files > have changed. Please make sure you run > > make -f Makefile.cvs > > *before* running configure. > > I tested an update from 11 Oct CVS to now and it compiled and ran > smoothly. > > Enjoy the new speed..
This might all well be, but for what I'm concerned this was just the ouverture for "The Great Breakage" :-). Now that the refactoring of pageitem is done we finally can do all kinds of interesting things to the code, including new pageitems, the new text layout system (aka NLS), the new file format, replacing QDom with SAX, etc. As a user you should be prepared to accept that documents don't open in old versions, or look differently in new versions, that menus might move or vanish altogether, palettes change their appearance, that ways how things are done change dramatically in new versions (and might switch back to the old behaviour in the next version), -- you get the picture. Also don't complain if mrdocs is a week behind with the documentation! ;-) So: * if you are using Scribus 1.3.x in a team, stick to one version as long as possible * if your work will be reused in the months to come, better stick to 1.2.x * never, ever change the Scribus version in the last 4 weeks before a deadline (unless you do a parallel install of the new version (different user account or backup ~/.scribus!) and use it only on copies of the original document) Scribus 1.3.x has been quite stable up to now. Expect some rough waters ahead! /Andreas
