[scribus] Drawgrid.py

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Sat Jun 21 00:13:37 CEST 2008


On Friday 20 June 2008 04:30:08 pm Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2008 18:38:00 John Culleton wrote:
> > On Monday 16 June 2008 09:31:50 am Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > > Owen Cook wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:22:37AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> > > >> On Sunday 15 June 2008 09:38:32 pm Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > > >>> Roger wrote:
> > > >>>>> I set up a new partition with Slackware 12.1 and for may
> > > >>>>> first task downloaded the latest stable version. It
> > > >>>>> compiled OK but on "make install" it blew up because it
> > > >>>>> couldn't find DrawGrid.py. That file did not exist in
> > > >>>>> 1.3.3.11 either.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Did I get a bad download or is there something wrong with
> > > >>>>> the distro?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I believe I saw Drawgrid.py in the svn so it's probably
> > > >>>> part of the distro. Roger
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Drawgrid.py has come and gone in the distro. Currently it's
> > > >>> not part of svn.
> > > >>
> > > >> Nevertheless 1.3.3.12 is a stable release. It won't install
> > > >> because of this missing file.  Would it be OK to just set up
> > > >> a dummy file of that name?
> > > >>
> > > >> BTW the name sought was DrawGrid.py. On my Linux system the
> > > >> captialization is significant.
> > > >
> > > > A dummy file should be OK, try it, all you can get is another
> > > > error message.
> > > >
> > > > However, there has to be something wrong because it simply
> > > > should not look for it.
> > > >
> > > > But as I haven't downloaded it, and tried to install it, I
> > > > can't vouch for the above statement
> > >
> > > This kludge should work, but it might be best to wipe out your
> > > 1.3.3.12 and download again. If you're using svn, it is now
> > > 1.3.3.13svn.
> > >
> > > Greg
> >
> > Is 1.3.3.12 considered stable? Some of the web pages indicate
> > 1.3.3.11 as the latest stable version.  I am confused (as usual.)
>
> Yes but the release hasnt been announced yet..  :) Maybe this
> weekend.. download a fresh tarball from sourceforge. It includes
> Drawgrid.py now.
>
> Craig
>


Thanks for the info!

And how about my other problem the lack of a item under the file menu 
for "New from template"? 1.3.3.11 has it, 1.3.5 has it but so far 
1.3.3.12 doesn't.



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