Re: Amaya crashes under Fedora Core 6

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 23:33, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2007-03-14 19:17:28 +0000, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > > I'll next try building my own RPM per the instructions here:
> > >
> > >   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/2007JanMar/0181.html
> >
> > if you have any difficulty or problem let me know
> >
> > To run under a shell don't forget use use:
> > XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 amaya you will have a icon on devel
>
> The package built according to the instructions cited above kind of
> works (it doesn't crash).
>
> Unfortunately, all the nice user interface progress of the past
> years is gone with this variant, rendering it much harder and
> clumsier  to use than the versio built the WX toolkit.

I agree with you. This version is too old.

> I'm wondering if there's any roadmap toward getting a version of
> amaya out that actually runs on Fedora Core 6?  Frankly, I'm
> considering a usable GUI XHTML editor that runs of that distribution
> part of my critical infrastructure for work.

We're working on that. A Fedora Core 6 machine could be available very soon 
for us. We improved the Amaya building to cope with these new platforms.
I'll post a snapshot today (sources and binaries) that you could test.

>
> Laurent?

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