[scribus] Drawgrid.py

[Plinnell]

On Saturday 21 June 2008 00:13:37 John Culleton wrote:
> 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.

That must be something local, as the 1.3.3.12 packages which were shipped with 
Suse 11.0 have it as well as my local svn.

I hope to have the release done by tomorrow. The holdup has been fixing the 
issues raised by the missing files in the prior tarball. If we dropped 
autohell for 1.3.3.x, this would not be an issue.

Peter