Re: Dia for windows stability?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 23.03.2009 14:48, avijit ghosh wrote:
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> http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html
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>
> (both the .94 version and the 0.96 version) seems to be extremely buggy for
> some reason under Windows XP Pro SP2. Its buggy to the point that its not
> really usable. I have tried this both natively and under vmware. The same
> .dia files read/write perfectly fine on the fink/darwinports version of Mac
> OS X, linux as well as the cygwinports windows version.
There is a difference between being "extremly buggy" and e.g. producing the 
same output on all platforms. Which one are you complaining about?

Also is it a coincidence you are leaving out 0.95 - which was up until 
recently the one I'm using for diagramming work under windoze?

No matter of your definition of "extremly buggy" you may want to take a at 
Dia 0.97-pre2 - it is intended to be better in both cases ;)

>  I unfortunately don¹t have a MS compiler here but I¹d be willing to help
> someone do someone do some debugging with regards to sorting out what
> exactly is going on. Is there a newer version of this that is available?
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-February/msg00057.html

> The
> files I am generating are actually pretty complex (100 megs or so
> compressed) and it may be tripping up against a bug somewhere..
I never used a Diagram with more than about thousand objects - and even 
that was for pure testing purpose. Last time I did I've found e.g. 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562574

If your requirment is not a typo, I think you are stressing Dia far above 
its limits (millions of objects?). There are a few algoritms with n^2 or 
even worse which I would expect to make Dia with a lot of objects unuseable 
on Linux, too.

May I ask what use case requires a diagram which never can be read completely?

        Hans

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