On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, vellum wrote:
Hi Guys, What is happening on the Win32 exe package of 0.36? I notice that it is the last thing not done on the Milestone 2 Roadmap and it is not present in the Inkscape file list.
It still needs to be done, and we'd greatly appreciate anyone who'd tackle it. We really need someone to commit to doing this through future releases, as most of the active developers currently are not doing development on Windows.
More seriously, I notice that the early version ( http://195.221.122.126/tmp/inkscape-0.36cvs-setup.exe) that Mael put up earlier on 28 November seems not to be available. Does this mean that there is no Win package available for people at present? Or is it somewhere obscure where I cannot see it?
I've reactivated it. We had deactivated the pre-releases when we finished the release. Maybe we should consider keeping them all up...
I think it is important that there be a Win package available, even if it is not at the cutting edge. There are very few, (read any?) non--commercial SVG drawing packages available and none that I know are anywhere as good as Inkscape. There is no way that Win people are going to get interested if they cannot test the program.
There are a lot of Win people around, graphics users rather than developers, who are interested in SVG and who like myself have a lot of trouble with the SodiPodi implementation. Inkscape definately seems to be going in the right direction and it is so frustrating to read about changes but not to be able to participate.
Thanks, this is useful feedback. Hopefully someone will contribute the windows port for 0.36 soon.
Bryce