[scribus] File format changes between 1.3.5 and 1.3.6?

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2010 06:25:20 schrieb Andrew A. Gill:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > That's unfortunate, and you should file a complaint or bug report with
> > Gentoo.
>
> It really, *really* is.  I would file a bug with them, but in my
> experience, situations like this generally go to /dev/null.
> Gentoo have moved to remove any package that requires Qt3 and
> they are not going to change the entire package repository for
> one package.
>
> I would complain that the whole affair is messed up and the way
> they handle these sorts of complaints is messed up as well, but
> that complaint would go to /dev/null, as well.  Even if I enabled
> --funroll-all-loops.

Well, in that case I would simply kiss Gentoo goodbye ;)

>
> > The file format hasn't changed, but there was a bug in a file loading
> > plug-in that prevented 1.3.5.1 documents from being opened in 1.3.6. This
> > bug has been fixed in 1.3.7svn, so your best option is probably to check
> > out 1.3.7svn and build this one from scratch.
>
> I see.
>
> That actually really helps.  Thanks a lot!  If I asked the
> Windows guy to get 1.3.7svn, could he download something like
> scribus-1.3.7svn-100507-snapshot.exe ?

Just download the latest 1.3.7svn installer from Sourceforge.

>
> Is that an executable installer, or is that just a
> self-extracting archive file?  

It's a complete installer, no compiling needed.

HTH,

Christoph