Craig Bradney wrote: > John Beardmore wrote: >> wayne wrote: >> >>> Is the 1.3.5 version adequate for business use? >>> If not, why not? What specifically would be the >>> problem? >> 'Which bugs haven't you found yet' is seldom an >> easy question for developers to answer. >> >> Presumably few bugs are know which is why it's an >> RC, but it hasn't been tested much which is why it >> shouldn't be regarded as a stable release. > > It is an RC (Release Candidate) because we want to > make a release for people to download and test > before the final 1.3.5 release. It will NEVER EVER > (repeat.. NEVER EVER) be classed as stable, even > after 1.3.5 release. > >> It very probably will be fine for many business >> applications, but without more testing I guess >> developers know it would be unwise to encourage >> you to depend on it for anything that would take a >> long tome to do again in 1.3.3.13 or whatever. > > You are supposed to depend on stable releases... ie > 1.3.3.13 is the current release and will still be > the version to use for normal work even after 1.3.5 > is released. Use it, test it.. and if all goes well, > feel free to use it instead of 1.3.3.13. > > Craig
I've been using 1.3.3.x all along until I upgraded to Mandriva 2009 spring recently. Mandriva 2009 only offers 1.3.5svn so I thought I'd try it out. However, I then decided to play it safe and uninstall 1.3.5svn and install 1.3.3.13. I can't install 1.3.3.13 without first removing libpython 2.6 and half of the KDE4 programs that I use now. I'm not going to do that. If I remove 1.3.5svn, keep libpython2.6 and then install libpython2.5, scribus 1.3.3.13 will install without icons in all of the menu bars along with this error message at the beginning: "Setting up the python plugin failed. Error details were printed to stderr." It will also generate a signal 11 crash when I want to close a file. My guess is that libpython 2.6 is somehow screwing around with something that 1.3.3.13 needs to install properly. I'm stuck with using 1.3.5svn and libpython 2.6. That is why I asked about the reliability of 1.3.5. Thanks, Wayne
