drawtiming / News: Recent posts

ultim has generously offered to step up and take over maintenance of drawtiming after a long period of inactivity on my part. It sounds like he/she has some excellent plans for moving the project forward. Please join me in welcoming ultim, and stay tuned for new developments.

Thanks to Salvador E. Tropea for contributions to enhance and improve rendering. These changes are now in CVS.

Also, I am investigating a problem with dependency rendering in CentOS 5.0 -- expect a new release when I resolve this.

The following instructions may be of use if you are having trouble building or running under Cygwin. Here is my process for a recent successful build:

I started with a fresh, fully updated Windows 2000 virtual machine.

I downloaded the Cygwin installer from http://sources.redhat.com, and installed from ftp://mirrors.kernel.org, which gave me
cygwin (1.5.24-1) and utilities.

I also selected optional packages: ImageMagick (6.3.0.1-2), libMagick-devel, libbz2-devel (1.0.3-2), gcc-g++ (3.4.4-3), make (3.81-1), xorg-x11-devel (6.8.99.901-1) along with their dependencies. I did not have to select ghostscript in this case, but ghostscript-base 8.50-1 did get installed as a dependency.... read more

Please see bug #1364087 if you are having trouble with drawtiming under Cygwin.