[scribus-dev] Scribus 1.5.0 released

[Craig Bradney]

> On 26 May 2015, at 23:29, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/26/2015 03:54 PM, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
>> William Bader schreef op 26 mei '15:
>> 
>>>>> Source
>>>>> scribus-1.5.0.tar.xz
>>>> 
>>>> OK I know how to unravel a gzipped tarball. But
>>>> gunzip doesn't like the .xz prefix. Is there a
>>>> version for us old-school types? Or should I
>>>> just rename the .xz version?
>>> 
>>> You do not need to unpack it.
>>> 
>>> If you have a recent version of tar, you can use
>>> 
>>> tar tJvf scribus-1.5.0.tar.xz
>>> 
>>> The capital J pipes the archive through xv.
>>> 
>>> If you have a very recent version of tar, you can use
>>> 
>>> tar tvf scribus-1.5.0.tar.xz
>>> 
>>> and tar will auto-detect the compression.
>>> 
>>> If you have an ancient version of tar, you can use
>>> 
>>> xz --decompress < scribus-1.5.0.tar.xz | tar tvf -
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> William
>>> 
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>> 
>> Is there also the possibility to get a zipped windows version? I really
>> hate windows installers, they mess up my settings and put the software
>> all over the place. I much rather prefer to use a zipped windows binary
>> and put different versions next to each other when I'm testing release
>> versions.
>> 
> 
> The windows installer has been good for Scribus. It will keep subsequent
> versions separate so you can have more than one at a time. I haven't
> seen issues of messing up settings. Keep in mind that 1.4.x and 1.5.x
> use the same preferences, though.
> 

No they do not.

Craig

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