Re: [GLE-general] Problems with QGLE on windows 10

[Radek M. <rad...@gm...>]

Well, since we are talking about GLE development status, here are my concerns.

On my Arch Linux, the AUR package is orphaned since 2016, but that is Arch specific thing.
However the GLE itself does not build from source anymore (the problem is described here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gle-graphics#comment-605625). The QGLE itself does not neither build nor run (I have one old binary still installed).

So I ended writing my own QGLE in python and Qt5, however it is quite stupid. I do not use it to draw, only to instantly visualize changes when editing the source, and also as a general viewer for gle files. However if anybody is interested I can make it public.

Nevertheless, because of all this I tried to look what is the current development status of GLE and it does not look good. Maybe I am wrong but any 'function related' development was 'recently' done by Jan Struyf whose last commit is from 2015, next there seems to be only commits from Vincent LaBella, who fixes some building issues.

It makes me sad (because the GLE is software I use quite a lot), but is looks like the project is slowly dying (I will be happy to be proving wrong). So it is maybe good time to collect all the compatible libraries and make some sort of package/container which one will able to build or run in the future (I would do it myself, but this is not my field).

Anyway, lets hope the things are actually not that bad.
And also thanks all the developers for their hard work!
Radek


On pondělí 12. srpna 2019 16:02:05 CEST Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:14:21PM +0000, LaBella, Vincent wrote:
> > I am using gle 4.2.5 (visual studio build) and gs 9.21 (32bit) on windows 10 (64 bit) with no problems on several machines
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Older gs version can be found here
> > 
> > https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases
> > 
> > I'll look into building against latest gs version and see if that helps.
> 
> What about porting it to Qt5? Support for Qt4 is being dropped in Debian,
> maybe windows has a similar plan?
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal
> 
> thanks,
> Christian
> 
> 
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