On Sunday 16 July 2006 20:31, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 02:13 schrieb John R. Culleton: > > On Sunday 16 July 2006 10:57, John Meyer wrote: > > > Plinnell wrote: > > > > The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.2.5 > > > > With the happy choice of either 1.2.5 or 1.3.3.2, which is to be > > preferred? > > The 1.2.x series is a bit more mature in terms of stability, but is lacking > lots of features added in 1.3.3.x. If I were you, I would use both of them. > > > Are there significant improvements in 1.3.3.2 that > > should not be missed? > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap#1.3.3 > > Cheers, > > Christoph
While I was there I took a peek at 1.3.4 and saw some things like optical margins that move closer to the familiar TeX world. But I saw somethig that gave me pause. There was a time when any Open Source program could be compiled from the sources using ./configure; make; make install. Now each group is adopting a new and unexpected build procedure. We face a new tower of babel. Scribus is neat but it isn't my only program. I am reasonably sure that 1.3.4 or any other new version can continue to be built under make. And all a make procedure does is compile the software. I see no compelling reason to change and one big reason not to---it puts an extra and for some an unexpected burden of downloading and compiling yet another new packaging protocol. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
