Re: I wanted to know when is the next release? or is this no longer supported

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

From recent comments, I don't think a new release will be out for some time.  There is quite active support for it as you will learn if you follow this mailing list or investigate the archives.  Patches will come available as they are  made.

However, this is where the beauty of opensource comes in.  You don't have to wait if you are willing to try your hand at working with the code. 

Many things about Dia are customizable - unlike Visio.

When you have crashes try to come with a celarly repreatable situation, and document it well so others can duplicate it.  This will speed support responses along.

Keep in mind that this is a volunteer effort.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Zou, Yixiong <yzou qti qualcomm com> wrote:

I have the same question. 

 

I am looking for an open source alternative for commercial software like Visio.  I’ve researched quite a few diagraming tools.  Dia is the one that has the most of the features that I am looking for.  The converter from Visio to SVG is something that’s really appealing because we have a lot of existing diagrams in Visio format.  But when I tried to use it on Windows, it seems to crash a lot for some reason.  I’ve played with Dia for quite few hours, and everytime when I try to create new shapes or sheets it will crash.  I can send out more detailed bug report later, but in the meantime, it would be good to know whether this is still in active development. 

 

BTW, is there a good up-to-date tutorial on creating new shaps and sheets?  Not via the GUI interface, but rather a guide on what each of the XML tag mean in the shape files. 

 

Thank you for your help. 

 

-          Yixiong Zou

 

From: dia-list [mailto:dia-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Michael Lam
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:23 AM
To: dia-list gnome org
Subject: I wanted to know when is the next release? or is this no longer supported

 

I really enjoy your product.  Is there going to be another release after 0.97.2?  Its been a few years since last release and wanted to know if this tools is still supported?

 

Regards

 

-Mike Lam

 

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