[Scribus] Success: compile Mac/Aqua from CVS without patches

[Gregory Pittman]

Craig Bradney wrote:

>On Wednesday 23 March 2005 05:03, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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>>PLinnell wrote:
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>>>Note:
>>>1) 1.3.0cvs is *not* for production use. There is major surgery going
>>>on underneath. ;)
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>>One of the biggest practical problems with using 1.3.0cvs is that it's a
>>bit of a dead end -- you can load v1.2 files but only save them in the
>>new v1.3 format, but then you can't load those with Scribus v1.2, so if
>>v1.3 leaves you stuck somewhere, you've wasted all that work!
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>If we had said we think you should use it for production work, then these 
>practical problems would exist, but we didnt. We will not be making an option 
>to save back into 1.2 format.. where would all your cross page items, pdf 
>1.5/1.6 support options, etc etc etc go in the 1.2 format?
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I wasn't trying to suggest that things be any different...I was just 
trying to give users something else to think about as they work with 1.3 
-- it seems like people, against advice, are indeed using 1.3 for more 
important things than they should be.
It would be nice if the ultimate 1.3 format allows for the use of 
conversion utilities like many xml files can, not so much for 1.2 
compatilibilty as for transforming documents to other things like html.  
(And this wouldn't have to be a task that the Scribus team would have to 
take on, except for having a good xml-like format for the .sla files)
As you may recall, some time ago I tried to parse .sla files with a perl 
module, and it told me they weren't "well-formed."

Greg