[Tuxpaint-devel] Win95/98/ME build from GSoC Ideas list (was re: GSOC2008)

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:31:06PM -0400, Al Land wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am very interested in helping out with the Tux Paint program for the 
> GSOC 2008 project.  I am currently a student in my sophomore year at the 
> University of Tennessee.  I noticed some of the projects listed, but I 
> downloaded the program and installed it and the first project statement, 
> (Easy one), seems to be completed.  Perhaps I am misinterpreted the 
> description.  In any case I would like to discuss the issues with a 
> mentor so that I can begin zeroing in on my application requirements. 
> Any help is appreciated.

I'm hoping John Popplewell will, in his copious free time, be able to
help mentor for GSoC.  hee hee hee.

So, this isse us this:  Recent versions of Tux Paint added some new
dependencies, such as SVG libraries, Pango and friends, etc.
Also, Magic tools were turned into external plug-ins, which no doubt adds
some additional nightmare to the maintenance of builds and ports.
(But damnit, I think it's worth it!!!)

The latest few builds have been made ONLY for Windows XP/2000/Vista.
When people try to run it on Win95/98/ME, the UI text does not get
rendered.

Really, I _guess_ this is a relatively simple task (build without Pango
support; fallback to FreeType via SDL_ttf).  However, John hasn't produced
any builds yet, so I'm assuming there's a 'hitch' that I'm not familiar
with.  (Probably related to maintaining BOTH builds -- modern and, shall
we say "classic"? -- simultaneously.)

If John's not available to help, it really may be a good idea for me
to DROP that from the GSoC ideas list.  Since I'm not sure who else here
is that familiar with building for Win32 who could help mentor a student,
such that the student does their work in a usable and maintainable way.

What I _don't_ want is "here's a Win95 build!" and that's it, with nothing
that helps us KEEP building new Win95 versions every time a new version
comes out...

Thanks,


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