On Friday 20 June 2008 04:30:08 pm Craig Bradney wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2008 18:38:00 John Culleton wrote: > > On Monday 16 June 2008 09:31:50 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > > > Owen Cook wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:22:37AM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > > >> On Sunday 15 June 2008 09:38:32 pm Gregory Pittman wrote: > > > >>> Roger wrote: > > > >>>>> I set up a new partition with Slackware 12.1 and for may > > > >>>>> first task downloaded the latest stable version. It > > > >>>>> compiled OK but on "make install" it blew up because it > > > >>>>> couldn't find DrawGrid.py. That file did not exist in > > > >>>>> 1.3.3.11 either. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Did I get a bad download or is there something wrong with > > > >>>>> the distro? > > > >>>> > > > >>>> I believe I saw Drawgrid.py in the svn so it's probably > > > >>>> part of the distro. Roger > > > >>> > > > >>> Drawgrid.py has come and gone in the distro. Currently it's > > > >>> not part of svn. > > > >> > > > >> Nevertheless 1.3.3.12 is a stable release. It won't install > > > >> because of this missing file. Would it be OK to just set up > > > >> a dummy file of that name? > > > >> > > > >> BTW the name sought was DrawGrid.py. On my Linux system the > > > >> captialization is significant. > > > > > > > > A dummy file should be OK, try it, all you can get is another > > > > error message. > > > > > > > > However, there has to be something wrong because it simply > > > > should not look for it. > > > > > > > > But as I haven't downloaded it, and tried to install it, I > > > > can't vouch for the above statement > > > > > > This kludge should work, but it might be best to wipe out your > > > 1.3.3.12 and download again. If you're using svn, it is now > > > 1.3.3.13svn. > > > > > > Greg > > > > Is 1.3.3.12 considered stable? Some of the web pages indicate > > 1.3.3.11 as the latest stable version. I am confused (as usual.) > > Yes but the release hasnt been announced yet.. :) Maybe this > weekend.. download a fresh tarball from sourceforge. It includes > Drawgrid.py now. > > Craig >
Thanks for the info! And how about my other problem the lack of a item under the file menu for "New from template"? 1.3.3.11 has it, 1.3.5 has it but so far 1.3.3.12 doesn't. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
