Upgrade to 2.2.

[Sven Langkamp]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:02 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>wrote:

> On Monday 21 June 2010 11:28:56 JL VT wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:17 AM, John Culleton
> <john at wexfordpress.com>wrote:
> > > I have Krita 2.0.2 on my Slackware 13 Linux box. I would like
> to
> > > test Krita 2.2 but I don't want to upgrade the entire Koffice
> suite. Is
> > > there a way to get just the Krita source code?
> >
> > Yes, you can use ccmake after you installed and configure it to
> compile
> > only Krita. Instructions here:
> > http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Build_KOffice
> >
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> If I understand you correctly the technique is to download the
> entire suite but use ccmake to limit the build to just Krita. Sort of
> like ordering a Martini when all you want is an olive.
>
> Is this what the developers do?
>
> The other graphics programs I use (Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape etc.)
> aren't tied to a particular Office Suite in this manner. It would be
> nice if there was a stand-alone variant of Krita that could be
> worked on independently from the Koffice suite. Most of Koffice
> (KWord, Kpresenter  etc.) is frankly junk. Open Office is better
> program by program. But Krita is unique among Open Source
> graphics programs.
>

If you install Krita from the package manager distributions ususally split
the packages so that you can install Krita seperately. It's better to
upgrade everything to not have different versions around.
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