Upgrade to 2.2.

[John Culleton]

On Monday 21 June 2010 12:11:05 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > > John Culleton
> > > > Wexford Press
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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.

I doubt if Krita 2.2 is in anyone's package management system.
But please correct me if I am in error.
-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html