[scribus] Announcement: Scribus 1.3.9 released

[Gerard Cunningham]

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 21:27 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday 04 December 2010 21:14:06 Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 00:35 +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > > On Sonntag, 5. Dezember 2010 00:06:50 Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:51 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 02 December 2010 02:39:26 John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:11:02 -0500
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo:
> > > > > > >> I'm still waiting for it to appear in the Fedora
> > > > > > >> repositories as well. But it will get there. I can be
> > > > > > >> patient.
> > > >
> > > > [snip long intemperate rant on reflection, cutting to the
> > > > chase:]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is it really too much to ask for a DEB?
> > >
> > > No, it is not, but there's an unexpected issue with building for
> > > DEB-based distros. See: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9549
> >
> > I'm a hack, not a hacker. I use programs, I have no idea how to
> > build them. I look forward to someone fixing the bugs, whatever
> > they are. 1.3.9 has several features I'd like to take advantage of.
> >
> > Best of luck.
> 
> The instructions for compiling from source are available on this and 
> other threads. If I can do it you can do it. 

I read them, and I did try. Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't want to play nice.
After four solid hours of fixing errors one after another and adding
dependencies, I gave up.

Maybe I'll give it another shot tomorrow with a clear head.


-- 
Gerard Cunningham
Journalist
Kildare, Co Kildare