Aw: dia-installer.de / Steffen Macke

[bart s abwesend de]

Hi all,

 

as far as I know most of the downloads are hosted at Sourceforge [1].
There are also some bug tickets, feature requests and code.

 

Additionally I found a GitHub project containing code for dia shapes and plugins [2].

 

I'm not a programmer myself and building Dia with all these GTK
dependencies is far too complex for me. I can help testing and improving

the Windows installer and I'll continue developing / packaging Dia Portable

(it uses the same binaries as the Windows installer package).

 

Maybe it's possible for the new developers / contributors / maintainers
to join the Sourceforge project and continue uploading the binaries there.
Then it should be easy to maintain dia-installer.de because all that's needed
there is changing the download links to the current files (at least short-term).

 

Kind regards
Bart.S

 

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dia-installer/
[2] https://github.com/sdteffen

 

 

Gesendet: Samstag, 03. Januar 2015 um 20:00 Uhr
Von: "Felix Natter" <fnatter gmx net>
An: dia-list gnome org
Cc: bart s abwesend de, "Yasemin Yilmaz" <mini yaseminyilmaz net>
Betreff: dia-installer.de / Steffen Macke

hello dia developers and users,

as you may have read in a previous post, Steffen has died last year.
Steffen maintained dia-installer.de which consists mostly of:
- a windows installer (including dia portable)
- a mac installer
- Debian and openSUSE packages
- dia shapes repository + installer
- documentation
- ...

His wife, Yasemin, told me that she has administration rights for
dia-installer.de (and most probably also access to his source codes).

It would be great (and probably satifying for Yasemin and Steffen's
familiy/friends) if someone could pick up things like the windows/mac
installers (maybe by Windows/Mac experts who also use dia) or other
parts like the shape collections or keep dia-installer.de running or ...

Unfortunately I cannot do this, as I work on Freeplane, Debian and
GTypist already and am running almost exlusively Linux.

The good news is that some of his probjects are available as
official Debian packages:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/dia-shapes
https://packages.debian.org/sid/dia2code (not from Steffen himself I
think)

Best Regards,
--
Felix Natter