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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/2012 11:42 AM, john Culleton
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<pre wrap="">Consider using other compiling methods, such as Cygwin. I have
not used it on Scribus sources but it works fine for e.g. Open Cobol.
And rather than investing 30 hours I suggest that a small Linux
partition would work more easily. I used to keep a partition with
an obsolete version of Slackware Linux just to get to Quanta
Plus, a graphical web page creator. You could use a similar
partition just for Scribus 1.5.0.</pre>
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Thank you, John.<br>
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The partition suggestion is a great idea (and I have my Gentoo
laptop which I can work on); however, I do want to see Scribus
readily deployed on the desktops of people and friends I work with
on outside projects so we can have a uniform system for
collaborating. Asking them to do something other than install a
windows (or Mac based) program would be too much; even getting them
to install a program sometimes takes perserverance. I'd like them
to have the latest and greatest, especially with the advent of the
scripting engine undergoing a major change. We have a lot of
nonprofits in Napa (since there seems to be a lot of wealthy people
here) and I think having a uniform engine, e.g. Scribus, for
creating content could be a real service to the community, so I'm
looking beyond my own needs.<br>
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By creating an XML punch list, I'd be memorializing a lot of the
know-how that escapes documentation. I was meticulously keeping a
record of everything I did until I came upon the podofo 0.8.4, I
found myself doing all kinds of things to get the project to finally
build. That's when I realized there needs to be a database type
record of all these variables, and since Scribus is XML based, what
better than using an XML project file for a Windows install? For
example, I'd like to see the current version of podofo, 0.9.1,
integrated or conflicts identified so they can be considered by the
Scribus developers. I ended up using projects I thought merited the
risk of higher versions, e.g. TIFF and JPEG, that surpassed the
versions specified in the instructions in BUILDING_win32_msvc.txt.
I have to learn how the outside projects are being vetted by the
Scribus developers so I don't go too far out on a limb.<br>
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