inkscape-0.92

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

HEADS UP: Changed to CMake from autotools. Exercise caution.

[Douglas R. Reno]

"Definitely not released yet" -- Inkscape developers.

[Jeremy Henty]

Now officially announced at ​https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/01/04/inkscape-version-092-released/ . Sill not avaliable from the launchpad site (which only lists 0.92 release candidates).

[bdubbs@…]

Release notes at ​http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92

There are lots of changes.

[ken@…]

I had hoped to pick this up (I left systems "ready" since before 7.10 was released), but that isn't going to happen for the moment (other problems here, too much has changed, and all my systems use ImageMagick-7). So just some comments:

1. When I looked at -pre4, it installed a load of static libs. I think they were in /usr/lib/inkscape and probably unwanted.

2. At that point I only did a DESTDIR install, hoping for feedback on my questions - it looked as if the installed shared lib had an odd symlink, maybe a straight install will be fine.

3. We recomment ImageMagick - all my available systems have IM7 (which is fine for everything else I use), but this is probably the one package which cannot use that (major rewrites in IM). In answer to my questions about what IM provides, there was a suggestion that perhaps some extensions can use it.

[Pierre Labastie]

Excerpt from Release notes:

New dependencies

    The Paintbucket and Trace Bitmap tools now use an external copy of the
Potrace library, which is available in many Linux distributions or can be
obtained from http://potrace.sourceforge.net
    Export to Optimized SVG now depends upon an external copy of the Scour
python module, which can be obtained via pip (pip install scour), package
management (version may be outdated) or from the scour project github site.
For Windows versions, the module is included.

Do not know whether those deps are mandatory, or can be disabled. OTOH, they look like nice tools to have.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Also note the cmake change, don't recall if I said that in the description or not.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed are revision 18168.

Thanks to Ken for installing ImageMagic6 libraries in parallel to IM7.