Re: [Denemo-devel] PDF window

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 15:47 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On 10/22/2011 11:39 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 07:53 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> >> On 10/22/2011 03:05 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
> >>> checking for EVINCE... no
> >>> configure: error: Package requirements (evince-view-2.3>= 2.3) were
> >> not
> >>> met:
> >>>
> >>> No package 'evince-view-2.3' found
> >> I edited configure.in. It should work for you now. Let me know.
> > Right that is working fine now. It builds and the point and click is
> > working - some minor niggles with it re-lilyponding when it doesn't need
> > to, which I am fixing.
> >   Can we make it the default to use evince now then (so --disable-evince
> > would be needed if no libevince package was available)?
> 
> It will not compile for ubuntu users, debian sid, and probably other 
> distro's because they use libevince-3 only (no libevince 2.30 on 
> ubuntu). We are unable to compile with evince-3.0 or above at this time 
> because it depends on gtk-3. I tried this already.  I think we should 
> wait until we begin migrating to gtk-3. We will have to maintain gtk-2 
> and evince-2.30 support until gtk-3 and evince-3 is available in debian 
> stable. Once we have denemo able compile with gtk-3 and evince-3.0 we 
> can provide a switch like ./configure --with-gtk3 (if we can't have 
> ./configure determine this itself). Sorry long story short...I don't 
> think we are ready. I hope this email makes sense. I have been 
> interrupted about five times for each sentence written.
That's fine. What you have written makes perfect sense, is it also the
case that I can't work on gtk3 support using the current Debian stable?
There appear to be no gtk3 packages there. I am not sure how to go on...

Richard




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