[Gretl-devel] next release

[Hélio Guilherme]

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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> On Sun, February 18, 2007 06:09, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> Just to let people know: I'll be out of gretl range for a few days
>> (going to give a seminar in New York).  I'll be back in the middle
>> of the week, and I anticipate making a release a day or two
>> later.
> 
> It would be very nice if we had as many installers ready by the time we
> release. The Windows installer shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> The *nix front is, as always, more diverse: the source tarball shouldn't
> be a problem either, for obvious reasons. Package-wise, what we basically
> want is  a deb package and an rpm package.
> 
> I am regularly building and using HEAD on Debian testing, so when the
> Debian package maintainer Dirk Eddelbuettel decides to package gretl for
> unstable, things should work out of the box. I don't know if the debian
> package is ok for the various flavours of Ubuntu --- I suppose it is, but
> in case some of you folks using Ubuntu wants to provide a package, that'd
> be nice to have as a sourceforge download. RPM-based distros, I don't
> know. Allin normally provides a no-frills rpm, but if there's anyone out
> there who uses Fedora/Mandriva/whatever who wants to help, please raise
> your hand.
> 
> On the OSX front, Allin is to my knowledge the only person able to build
> the dmg package. I tried once in the past, and failed miserably: actually
> I wasn't even able to build from source. This is not surprising, given my
> hopelessness on OSX. Is there anybody around who can help, so we can lift
> at least the Mac package from Allin's shoulders?
> 
> 
> Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
> Dipartimento di Economia
> Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
> Ancona
> 
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I am using OpenSuse 10.2, and the rpm installs fine.
I don't have experience on build distro packages, but if you need I'll try.

I am currently having trouble with pdflatex for building documentation.
I am preparing the Portuguese documentation, but pdflatex can't find
some fonts, and the gretl-guide-pt.pdf appears with blank pages or
garbled text.


Hélio Guilheme
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