Packagename change: transfig->fig2dev
Dr. Volker Zell
dr.volker.zell@oracle.com
Fri Aug 26 15:41:00 GMT 2016
Hi
There will be an upcoming name change for the current transfig package,
see the following mail excerpt from Thomas Loimer:
> Please, find new upstream versions of xfig and fig2dev at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/xfig-3.2.6.tar.xz
> and
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/fig2dev-3.2.6.tar.xz
> respectively. Note, that the name of the package transfig has been changed to
> fig2dev. Users would not immediately know that the fig2dev program, which is in
> most cases necessary when working with xfig, is contained in the transfig
> package. Also, the transfig program itself is considered obsolete. It only
> builds when enabled with the configure switch --enable-transfig.
>
> The build process for xfig and fig2dev has been changed from imake to
> ./configure; make; make install
> or, with some ornaments
> ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
> make -j; make check; make install-strip; make installcheck
> I believe, there are no special flags necessary for building on cygwin. However,
> for xfig you might want to check the --with-appdefaultdir, --with-icondir and
> --with-applicationsdir options.
>
> Changes to the previous version were mainly made in porting the code to autoconf
> from the imake file. However, fig2dev now exports to tikz and pict2e, for use
> with latex. Also, several bug fixes have been made.
>
> Please report how compilation under cygwin fares.
Can somebody make me maintainer for the fig2dev package so that I can work on these ?
Thanks
Volker
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