This is the latest Calligra release, and the 2.9 series will be the last
KDE4-based release series.
As usual, huge thanks to Tobias Berner <tcberner@gmail.com> for working on this
in kde@'s area51 experimental repository (including previous Calligra releases
between 2.7.5 and 2.9.10).
Notable changes from a packaging perspective:
- Several dependencies have been updated to use more recent ports versions.
- Old translations not shipped by the current Calligra release have been
removed.
- The dependency on sysutils/nepomuk-core has been dropped, following what
upstream has done.
- The dependency on Qt3-compatibility Qt4 ports has been dropped, following
upstream.
- CONFLICTS with ancient ports have been removed.
- Support for G'MIC (GREYC's Magic for Image Computing), introduced after
2.7.5, is disabled by default, as building the code with clang requires
insane (>24GB) amounts of memory. We reported this bug to the LLVM developers
(bug 22199) almost a year ago, but there has been no activity upstream.
- Stopped depending on graphics/pstoedit in an unorthodox way: just follow what
every major Linux distribution does and unconditionally depend on it. I could
not figure out why we were originally depending on the port if it was already
installed.
- Stop playing tricks with PACKAGE_BUILDING: we do not package Vc
(https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc) so it does not make sense to turn on support
for it when building packages. Not only that, but the CMake option name was
wrong (it should be PACKAGERS_BUILD, not WITH_PACKAGERS_BUILD).
This release contains a number of important bug fixes to 2.5.1 and we
recommend everybody to update as soon as possible. An overview of the
most important fixes can be found in the release notes:
http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-5-2-released
- Remove header from Makefiles.
This release contains a number of important bug fixes to 2.5.0 and we
recommend everybody to update. Release notes can be found in the
official announcement:
http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-5-1-released
coming to the ports tree after a short testing period which showed it
to be quite stable.
For the productivity part of the suite (word processor, spreadsheet,
and presentation program) the target user of version 2.5 is still the
student or academic user. This version has a number of new features
that will make it more suitable for these users.
The artistic applications of the Calligra Suite are the most mature
ones and are already used by professional users everywhere.
As usual, detailed release notes can be found in the official
announcement:
http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-5-released
Meanwhile, new translations were added:
- editors/calligra-l10n-gl (Gallegan)
