[Slackbuilds-users] qwt update

Christoph Willing chris.willing at iinet.net.au
Sun Oct 4 22:18:25 UTC 2015


On 05/10/15 07:44, Benjamin Trigona-Harany wrote:
> On October 4, 2015 22:46:44 Christoph Willing wrote:
>> However for qgis, an additional SlackBuild for 'qwtpolar' will be
>> required to replace the quite old private version of qwtpolar contained
>> in the qgis source tarball (since it is incompatible with the up to date
>> qwt). Fortunately qgis configuration facilitates the use of external
>> qwtpolar (which I'll email the qgis maintainer about by separate email)
>> and, to enable this to work, I've prepared a new SlackBuild for qwtpolar
>> which I'll submit at the same time as the updated SlackBuild for qwt.
>> I've built and tested qgis with the new qwt & qwtpolar combination and
>> it all seems to work fine.
>
> Can you post the new qwt and qwtpolar SlackBuilds here prior to submitting
> them? I can then test against QGIS and submit an update in conjunction.

Yes, will do. I was reminded that implications for other SlackBuilds 
which _optionally_ require qwt also need to be checked - I'll work 
through those today and send you the final qwt & qwtpolar SlackBuilds 
before I do a formal submission.

chris



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