[Scribus] Success: compile Mac/Aqua from CVS without patches

[Craig Bradney]

On Friday 25 March 2005 00:39, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Craig Bradney wrote:
> >On Wednesday 23 March 2005 05:03, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> >>PLinnell wrote:
> >>>Note:
> >>>1) 1.3.0cvs is *not* for production use. There is major surgery going
> >>>on underneath. ;)
> >>
> >>One of the biggest practical problems with using 1.3.0cvs is that it's a
> >>bit of a dead end -- you can load v1.2 files but only save them in the
> >>new v1.3 format, but then you can't load those with Scribus v1.2, so if
> >>v1.3 leaves you stuck somewhere, you've wasted all that work!
> >
> >If we had said we think you should use it for production work, then these
> >practical problems would exist, but we didnt. We will not be making an
> > option to save back into 1.2 format.. where would all your cross page
> > items, pdf 1.5/1.6 support options, etc etc etc go in the 1.2 format?
>
> I wasn't trying to suggest that things be any different...I was just
> trying to give users something else to think about as they work with 1.3
> -- it seems like people, against advice, are indeed using 1.3 for more
> important things than they should be.
> It would be nice if the ultimate 1.3 format allows for the use of
> conversion utilities like many xml files can, not so much for 1.2
> compatilibilty as for transforming documents to other things like html.
> (And this wouldn't have to be a task that the Scribus team would have to
> take on, except for having a good xml-like format for the .sla files)
> As you may recall, some time ago I tried to parse .sla files with a perl
> module, and it told me they weren't "well-formed."

The new format will be.. but the current 1.3 format is a hack to get in the 
storage we need for now based on the 1.2 format until the new format comes 
in. It will remain so until we get a view of where the new format is going. 
Right now most of the time is going into adding in the new features we wanted 
for 1.3.0 and cleaning code.

Craig
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