[Shotwell] Call for testing

[David Velazquez]

Awesome guide bengt, I'm sure this will help many people.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Bengt Thuree <bengt at thuree.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I created a new wiki page (quite un-official) with my own lazy dog for
> how to build Shotwell from scratch. Hope it can be of assistance...
>
> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource
>
> Bengt
>
> On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 08:34 +0100, Cor van den Berghe wrote:
> > I'm new to this building your own software stuff, but since I really like
> > Shotwell I tought I'd get my hand dirty and do my bit to help out.
> > I'm following the build instructions from this page:
> > http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source but when I try to build
> gexiv2
> > I get this error:
> >
> > Package exiv2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `exiv2.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'exiv2' found
> > make: *** [gexiv2/gexiv2-metadata.o] Fout 1
> >
> > exiv2 0.19-3 is installed on my PC running Ubuntu 10.10
> >
> > Can somebody tell me what to do, thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Cor.
> >
> > <http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source>
> >
> > 2010/12/11 Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org>
> >
> > > We've been working diligently on Shotwell 0.8 and are looking to begin
> > > wrapping up this release.  Several exciting features have been added as
> > > well
> > > smaller additions and bug fixes.  This release includes such features
> as:
> > >
> > > * Video support, including uploading videos to various Web services
> > > (including YouTube)
> > > * Runtime monitoring and auto-import of the library directory
> > > * Metadata (tags, titles, rating) written to master files automatically
> > > * Flagging files for batch operations
> > > * Set multiple photos to desktop background slideshow
> > > * ... and more!
> > >
> > > We could use your help.  We need people to run Shotwell through its
> paces
> > > so
> > > we can make this release as rock-solid as possible.  If you're
> interested,
> > > follow the directions here for getting the source and building it:
> > >
> > > http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source
> > >
> > > Please note that Shotwell will *not* build with Vala 0.11.  Use Vala
> 0.10.1
> > > if possible (Vala 0.9.7 is the minimum version).
> > >
> > > If you find bugs or issues -- anything that seems odd -- please feel
> free
> > > to
> > > report them here on the mailing list or via our Trac ticketing system
> at:
> > >
> > > http://trac.yorba.org/
> > >
> > > Thanks for your continued support!
> > >
> > > -- Jim Nelson
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> --
> With Regards
>
> Bengt Thuree
> bengt at thuree.com
>
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