Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 20:18:46 schrieb Michael Higgins: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:11:56 +0100 > > Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 19:48:44 schrieb jwminer at accessvt.com: > > > Laszlo wrote: > > > > Seriously, user needs are very different, so every user has a > > > > different > > > > priority of necessary features. I have already produced a book > > > > > > > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Success_stories#172_page_ECG_workbo > > > >ok_f or_medical_students > > > > > > > > using scribus 1.2, so I think a have the authority to say, that > > > > scribus > > > > is "basically usable". I am personally ready to work around the > > > > bugs in > > > > scribus, as long as I can do what I want. For me the most > > > > important feature missing is proper text > > > > hyphenation/justification. I strongly disagree to a feature > > > > freeze that may hinder the development of a stable > > > > version with good text justification. > > > > > > Yes, yes yes! The lack of good hyphenation/justification makes it > > > impossible for me to use Scribus for most of my text-heavy projects. > > > I can learn user-interface quirks. I can't do anything about an > > > essential feature that's missing except wait for it to be > > > implemented. > > > > The feature is already implemented in 1.3.4, but this is no stable > > version. 1.3.5 will come with hundreds of bugfixes, and it will be > > (hopefully) much more stable than 1.3.4, but there has a lot to be > > done until a new stable version with all the goodness can be released. > > > > All of you can help to speed things up by downloading and testing > > 1.3.5svn on a regular basis, and by reporting bugs. > > Is there a Gentoo ebuild for 1.3.5svn yet? I'd just try to alter the > scribus-1.3.4-r1.ebuild, but it looks for the source as a tar.gz.
Nothing I know of. You probably need to build 1.3.5 from svn sources. See http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install1 and http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install4. > > My first thought was that there should be a daily 1.3.5svn snapshot > available at sourceforge to work with. Is that a big problem to make > available? The only issue I see is time ;) > > Discussing this is NOT really within my comfort zone, but I'd like to > help. If I need to make my own tarball, what's the bash script I'd > use? '-) I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I wiil have the right answer for you ;) Christoph
