Re: [Texmacs-dev] [TeXmacs] New binary versions under Linux

[Miguel de Benito Delgado]

I think there might be around four hundred commits between that release and SVN rev 8433. I haven't counted them so there could be more. This should mean many bugs fixed (charset management, pdf export, UI) a couple experimental features and some things noticeably improved, especially in (conservative) LaTeX import/export. Being Qt based, the interface is also more responsive than in the X11 version.

If we only found the time to write that newsletter we once discussed...

Best,

--
Miguel de  Benito.

On 9 April 2014 23:39, Bill Page <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks for the explanation.  On my "newer" linux system should I
expect to see any differences between the "x11" version currently
downloadable from the web site:

http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-x11-i386-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

versus your "qt" version TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433... ?

On 9 April 2014 05:37,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Those versions are supposed to be 'universal' not link to a specific
> distribution. They aim to provides TeXmacs for distributions which don't
> have it and also to give opportunity to have a newer version without
> recompiling. Else this versions could have some side effects like François
> noticed it.
>
> I didn't fully test but I would say 'old' is before kernel 2.6. We
> targeted distributions that are 10 years old.
>
>> Any hints about what old and new linux means in this context?  Kernel?
>> What version in major distributions, e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE ...
>> Also, what advantages this version should have over previous?
>>
>> On 8 April 2014 10:47, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Denis Raux has managed to create static binaries for the Qt version of
>>> TeXmacs under Linux.
>>> His packages can be used instead of standard packages provided by
>>> various Linux distributions
>>> in the case that users want the most recent version or if the TeXmacs
>>> package is
>>> not well supported in their favourite distribution.  It would be nice if
>>> as many volunteers under Linux as possible could try the new packages.
>>> The first (A) link is for old Linux distributions, whereas you should
>>> use the second (B) one for more recent versions of Linux.
>>>
>>>    ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433_8437-i386-pc-linux-gnu-A.tar.gz
>>>    ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433-i386-pc-linux-gnu-B.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Installation is similar as for the classical binary distributions.
>>>
>>> Best wishes, --Joris
>>
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