ANN: midori version 0.1.5 released

eriefisher eriefisher at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 00:58:34 CET 2009


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:53:59 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:03:31 -0400, eriefisher wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:57:45 +0100
> >Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:19:59 -0400, eriefisher wrote:
> >> 
> >> >On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:25:13 +0000 (UTC)
> >> >christian at twotoasts.de wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Heya,
> >> >> 
> >> >> this version of Midori has a focus on optimizations below the
> >> >> hood. The most important point here is that from now on, you
> >> >> need at least WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1, Glib 2.10 and libsoup 2.25.2.
> >> >> Lots of tricks to maintain compatibility were dropped.
> >> >> Supporting ancient versions of WebKit became increasingly hard,
> >> >> and various optimizations are in place already. The internal
> >> >> source view was also dropped, and the default text editor is
> >> >> used, or whatever you chose in the preferences. As for a really
> >> >> exciting feature, downloading of files works if you have
> >> >> WebKitGTK+ 1.1.3, including a sidepanel and progress bars
> >> >> inside the statusbar. As a goodie I added an extension called
> >> >> Colourful Tabs, which took me less than two hours to write and
> >> >> is quite nice for that.
> >> >> 
> >> > [snip]
> >> >
> >> >I can't get this version to install. I have tracked down most
> >> >missing depends but I can't find rst2html, rst2html.py.
> >> 
> >> rst2html[.py] is only used to create the HTML variant of the user
> >> documentation which can also be read as plain text, see
> >> docs/user/midori.txt.
> >> Midori should build fine also without this tool if you do *not*
> >> explicitly specify --enable-userdocs.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >It seems with every new release I need to find something from
> >> >somewhere.
> >> 
> >> The use of reStructuredText (ReST) is not new in Midori 0.1.5, it
> >> already existed in earlier versions.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Enrico
> >> 
> >I am not passing anything extra to ./waf configure and it shows fail
> >on the two rst2html packages. I have version 0.1.3 installed and
> >working
> 
> I just tested it again and here it doesn't fail. It just reports that
> rst2html is not found but configure continues, simply creating the
> HTML variant of the docs is disabled.
> But this is nothing critical.
> 
> What I missed to mention earlier, the rst2html[.py] tool is probably
> in a package called python-docutils or just docutils or something
> similar. Depends on the distribution you are using but you didn't
> mention which it is.
> 
> 
> >well. When I installed it I needed to install a couple of dev
> >packages for it to build, I forget which ones exactly. The version
> >previous installed without issue.
> 
> This is something different. First, you just talked about rst2html
> [.py]. And as long as you won't say which packages are/were missing,
> I'm afraid nobody can help you.
> 
> Regards,
> Enrico
> 
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention my *nix of choice. antiX/Mepis using
Debian sid and sidux repos. I have also installed python-docutils.

These are the results, Maybe/probably I'm missing something?

http://pastebin.ca/1373501

Thanks.



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