On Thursday 21 June 2007 15:50, Craig Ringer wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Thursday 31 May 2007 15:05, Craig Ringer wrote: > >> Hi all > >> > >> We've made the switch to Subversion. Anonymous CVS will remain > >> available for at least a week, but will not be updated, and all > >> new work is going into svn. > > > > Ok got the subversion files in their own directory. Thanks, > > > > I am of the gunzip >./configure >make >make install generation. > > If it ain't broke don' fix it, say I. > > Alas, it's broke: > > - Downloading big tarballs of code eats a lot of time and > bandwidth, and managing patch sets quickly gets cumbersome and > painful, whereas using a networked revision control system solves > this; and > - Autotools has some significant downsides that can waste plenty of > time and cause lots of pain, especially with Qt's meta-object > compiler but far from only then. CMake is far from perfect, but IMO > overall it sucks significantly less - and it's improving > measurably. > > -- > Craig Ringer
I don't have time to debug this new package on my system. Wasted some hours already. So I will stick to precompiled releases of Scribus from now on. Cmake gives wierd messages like "gcc is broken" which of course it isn't. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
