[Scigraphica-announce] Binary packages

[Conrad S. <co...@ci...>]

Hi

Binary and source packages of scigraphica are now available at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5462&release_id=45465

for

SuSe     7.1 may work on 7.2
RedHat   7.0 may work on 7.1
Mandrake 7.2 may work on 7.0, 7.1

and
Mandrake 8.0 ... Real soon now
Cooker       Should be updated by Mandrake, in the contrib area.

These releases were compiled using stock distributions as far as possible,
and are linked against gtk+extra-0.99.16, of which binaries are available
at the same place. Mandrake 7.2 and SuSe 7.1 users can use the Numeric
Python packages provided there as well, since these distributions ship
without them by default.

**** Please note: remove the old .sga file in your home directory, or sg
will crash! This problem is already fixed in the cvs archive, but was too
late for this release.

Apart from that, this release is much more stable than previous releases,
please check it out!

If someone wants to contribute Debian packages, or send a link to where
these can be downloaded or apt-getted from, your effort will be
appreciated by millions of adoring fans. Or a few tens anyway ;-)

Any comments or bug reports are welcome!

                                  o--o

As an aside, it is interesting to note that SuSe is the most popular
distribution for downloading SciGraphica, despite all the installation
problems on that distribution. Or maybe all the questions reflect the
larger user base... who knows.

Also, we are averaging about 2500 downloads per month of the various files
in SciGraphica releases, as well as about 11,000 page views of the project
home page.
(http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=5462)

Note the slump in page views between releases from April to June. "Release
early, release often" they say. Now we know why ;-)

Conrad

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