uniconv now called uniconvertor

[Tavmjong Bah]

A Fedora packaging problem:

/usr/bin/uniconv was moved to /usr/bin/uniconvertor in Fedora to avoid a naming conflict. This breaks .cdr and .wmf import (cdr2svg.sh, cdr_input.inx, wmf_input.inx).

[Luca Bruno (lucab)]

IIRC debian will do the same thing, as uniconv is already taken as binary name.
Maybe we should check if /usr/bin/uniconverter is present at runtime, otherwise fallback to plain uniconv.
If somebody is in contact with upstream, are they already aware of the name clash?

[sas (sas-sas)]

They are aware of the name clash: http://www.sk1project.org/forum/topic.php?forum=2&topic=33

I don't think .inx files currently support an either/or dependency, so some work would be required to specify "either uniconvertor or uniconv". There's also the problem that UniConvertor is called via a script (formerly cdr2svg.sh, now uniconv-ext.py), and the script needs to know which to use (although it could probably use the uniconvertor Python module directly, which would avoid the name issue).

It would be best if everything could be switched to the longer name for 0.47.

[Rygle (rygle)]

It is probably as simple as renaming uniconv.cmd to uniconvertor.cmd on the Win32 platform. We can do that ourselves, although that would require a special package hosted somewhere.

Does anyone know about other platforms and linux distros? Mac, Ubuntu, BSD, Suse...?

[theAdib (theadib)]

Folks please recheck. There is now a new uniconvertor script called uniconv-ext.py that should handle this case.
PLease report! Adib.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Also affects OpenSUSE, Ubuntu 9.10 (if /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin) and probably some other platforms.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Fix committed in bzr, revision 9246.
The new file can be downloaded here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/annotate/head%3A/share/extensions/uniconv-ext.py.

[inkscape bug (jetsongeorge72)]

 p = Popen('uniconvertor', shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).wait()

is used to test if uniconverter is available. Most of us know that one can often just give a programme name to run it, but some programmes require input.

Just running unicoverter causes an error (no input file, so the extension sees the error and doesn't realize that the programme exists).

'uniconverter --help' does NOT throw an error.

(Fedora core11)

Change the test to check for 'uniconverter --help' OR ... if you know what programme name you have on your system, just rip out the test section and specify the function as:
cmd = 'uniconvertor'