[scribus] 1.3.9 debian builds?

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 05 December 2010 04:25:37 Craig Bradney wrote:
> On 12/5/10 3:23 AM, John Culleton wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 December 2010 13:54:07 Marie-Noëlle Augendre 
wrote:
> >> 2010/12/4 ehud.kaplan at gmail.com <ehud.kaplan at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>> My ONLY complaint about Linux is the long repository-updating
> >>> delay that we typically have to put up with.  This is true for
> >>> Scribus, Lyx, TexLive and other useful programs.
> >>>
> >>> EK
> >>
> >> This is not true for all Linux distros.
> >> That's why I left Ubuntu for Fedora a couple of months ago.
> >>
> >> Marie-Noëlle
> >
> > I use Slackware and compile almost everything from source. So I
> > am pretty much freed from repository sluggishness.  For 1.5.0
> > (the only version that supports PDF X/1-a) I have no other
> > option.
> >
> > The people who really suffer are the Mac OS users. The Mac
> > version is always left to last it seems.
>
> No it is not.. but I had build problems on my laptop so it was
> delayed a day or two.
>
> Craig

I was speaking in general, not just about Scribus. In theory Mac, 
being based on BSD, should be as easy to do as Linux. But I see all 
these posts about the Mac version with reference to Open Source 
programs in general.

When I develop a trivial little app, like Tyro for indexing (written 
in Tcl/Tk) I can test it on my Linux partition and also my Windows XP 
partition. But I have no way to develop or test for Mac without 
investing big bucks in a machine just for that purpose. I see no ROI 
in that. 

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