On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Albert wrote:
What it all comes down to is that it would be really clarifying to have a depency list for inkscape: which version of inkscape needs exactly which versions of what software packages. I assume developers know this, and perhaps some could post the list somewhere on the inkscape website. Then any user could foresee whether this or that inkscape release suits his system or whether several upgrades are necessary.
Hi Albert,
Yes, you're right about the need for a dependency list. The developers aren't really the perfect people to do this, since by definition they've had all the deps installed for long enough to forget precisely what they were. ;-)
Anyway, we do collect this information here:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingInkscape
That page is in serious need of some organization, and it could really benefit from clarifying which distros would need which dependencies. If you have some spare cycles, would you mind working on that page a bit for the system you're most familiar with?
Bryce