Shoes Curious Released

No witty comments, just thanks and congratulations on getting Shoes to its Curious status.

With extreme sobriety and with my hat in my hands, I do thank you for all the bugs you caught, DeeJay. There had to have been like ten.

Can Shoes smell?

bj0ern: I’d imagine if that ever happens, there’d be a handy Socks library to protect them.

Odor Eaters to the rescue!

Congrats, _why. Downloading it now…

Many thanks to the great one!

I needed some Shoes (kept getting funny looks at work without them)

Congrats!

Trurl and Klaupacius congratulate you.

And so does Pirate Pugg.

Congrats on the release! I didn’t take much of a hand in Shoes’ development, but I’ve got the book and I’m about to start on my first Shoes project, so this couldn’t be more fortuitous. Yes!

congrats, and i really think the first image is clever!

Ok, but now what do we make with it? I am looking at your camping as well, and I guess I just ca’nt figure out what to make that is not already out there in a simple sense.

amazing.

Could this be feasibly made into a GEM and then perhaps we could attach shoes to ballons?

Way to nail it to the status quo!

Notes about installing on Ubuntu: Not Easy

Here is a partial list of what you need to apt-get install on Ubuntu 7.10 to get things up and running. Also, doing a prefix install doesn’t copy over the static nor sample directories.

libgif-dev
libjpeg-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libcairo2-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libglib1.2
fontconfig

The above list may include things that are not required, please indicate if I was over-zealous in my list (or under-zealous).

Congrats _why! A major software milestone of marathonic proportions. Thanks for creating Shoes and sharing all the educational fun.

Oh, what a lovely unbirthday present!

Congratulations, _why! This version feels a lot more polished and less buggy than the previous svn release. I already have a couple of app ideas in my head, going to try them out soon :)

Cool stuff. And it doesn’t print Cyrillics =(

Kudos!

Hey Nil,

I,m fairly new to Ubuntu, could you explain to me which prefixes to use?

Boo! It won’t build out of the tarball on FreeBSD! No worries though, here’s the appropriate makefile patch:

--- Makefile.old	Tue Jan  8 20:14:19 2008
+++ Makefile	Wed Jan  9 20:05:58 2008
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 OBJ = ${SRC:.c=.o}

 PREFIX = /usr/local
-INCS = -I. -I/usr/include
-LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lcairo -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgif -ljpeg
+INCS = -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include
+LIBS = -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lcairo -lpangocairo-1.0 -lungif -ljpeg

 SVN_VERSION = 396
 RUBY_INCS = `ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts Config::CONFIG["archdir"]'`

Thankyou, Keith. Is saved to Shoes.

I have not a book to open, for I am unable to purchase online.

Well, lets see how many messes I make before I figure it out :)

@Jase I used /opt/shoes but this isn’t actually where installs go on Ubuntu. Installing from the system package manager generally drops things all over the place (something that annoys me about *nix’s) like /usr/bin /usr/share/locale /usr/share/

As I understand the Ubuntu package manager (Debian’s), you don’t want to attempt to register the install there.

_Why could look at something like autopackage to create a cross linux installer.

I just got your Shoes book from Lulu. As a fine artist & graphic novel fan turned programmer I love it. Thanks for doing what ya do _Why!