Windows version

[Tuan Amith]

Hi,

I was wondering if there's any plans for a windows version since GIMP
and Inkscape (GTK programs) are now portable to Windows?

Tuan

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[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 2/2/06, Tuan Amith <tamith@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there's any plans for a windows version since GIMP
> and Inkscape (GTK programs) are now portable to Windows?

To be honest, they are portable for ages :) Basically, all you need to
compile a Gtk application on Windows is a Windows PC, a working build
environment and a lot of spare time. Is there any single chance that
more developers can help with pushing Passepartout forward, if Win32
port will be available?

Alexandre
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[Rasmus Kaj]

>>>>> "TA" == Tuan Amith <tamith@...> writes:

 TA> Hi,

Hi!

 TA> I was wondering if there's any plans for a windows version since GIMP
 TA> and Inkscape (GTK programs) are now portable to Windows?

None actually planned, and Passepartout development is rather slow at
the moment, even on unix ...


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[Fredrik Arnerup]

> On 2/2/06, Tuan Amith <tamith@...> wrote:
> To be honest, they are portable for ages :) Basically, all you need to
> compile a Gtk application on Windows is a Windows PC, a working build
> environment and a lot of spare time. Is there any single chance that
> more developers can help with pushing Passepartout forward, if Win32
> port will be available?

Developers use Unix, users use Windows. Isn't that the problem? :-)

I don't think compiling Passepartout on Windows would be a big problem,
but you would have to verify that it works properly too. I'm sure there
are several unicisms in the code, e.g. using temp files, looking in $HOME
and /etc, assumptions about path names, using /bin/sh, et cetera. Nothing
major, but it would have to be addressed.

/Fredrik


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[Tuan Amith]

Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...> writes:

>
>  Is there any single chance that
> more developers can help with pushing Passepartout forward, if Win32
> port will be available?
>

>

There definitley will be a response if there is a Win32 version. Scribus which
was on Linux for quite a while has a Win32 version beginning of this year.




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[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 4/7/06, Tuan Amith wrote:

> >  Is there any single chance that
> > more developers can help with pushing Passepartout forward, if Win32
> > port will be available?
>
> There definitley will be a response if there is a Win32 version. Scribus which
> was on Linux for quite a while has a Win32 version beginning of this year.

And how many new Win32 developers does it have now? I know of none.

Alexandre
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[Rasmus Kaj]

>>>>> "TA" == Tuan Amith <tamith@...> writes:

 TA> Hi,

Hi!

 TA> I was wondering if there's any plans for a windows version since GIMP
 TA> and Inkscape (GTK programs) are now portable to Windows?

Passepartout is open source -- Anyone with suffient knowledge of
application programming in a windows environment is welcome to port it
...

That said, I doubt it will happen.  One thing I do hope *will* happen
is that Passepartout will be reimplemented using the Cairo graphics
API.  I am currently investigating the platform and hope to find time
to do some actual programming on it later this year ...  Since Cairo
is (at least supposed to be) cross-platform, that might make porting
even easier.

The current state of both the C++ Cairo bindings and the PDF backend
of Cairo is not good enough for what I would require for Passepartout,
but that will probably change (with or without help from this
direction).


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