[scribus] Scribus svn versions for MSWin users.

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Wed Feb 23 17:43:44 CET 2011


On Wednesday 23 February 2011 11:14:06 a.l.e wrote:
> hi
>
> > I am fortunate enough to have adopted Slackware Linux over a
> > decade ago for my main operating system.  I keep both 1.4.0rc1
> > and 1.5.0 versions up to date on my system via svn.
> >
> > When I discuss Scribus with MSWin users, for example in my e-book
> > listed below, what do they need beyond the svn download to get
> > Scribus svn versions up and running? I can guess PostScript and
> > Cygwin, but what else?
>
> a slackware install CD.
>
> jokes aside. the svn versions are not really meant for day to day
> work.
>
> you need visual studio 9 to compile it on windows.
>
> but there are few chances that a windows user -- who uses scribus
> and is not ready to try linux -- will be happy when she has to
> compile it herself!
>
> good luck.
>
> a.l.e
>

Thanks!

So is the list:
Cygwin
Postscript
Visual Studio 9
?
(Of course there are Gimp and TeX and stuff but I am talking about the 
bare essentials.)
-- 
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