On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 09:50 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 turnip@...583... wrote:
Okay, well as the Fedora.us people have assured us that there *is* an Inkscape 0.40 FC3 package, there's not much point in me doing any more work on this.
I just found the spec file, but the location doesn't seem to be public so I'm checking with the Fedora packager if he's OK with it being used here. Just out of courtesy...
Bryce, if you'd like to use my package (http://turnipspatch.com/misc/rpm/) for the SourceForge downloads page until an official Fedora one is available, feel free.
Thanks, posted.
OK, hang on for a second... What packages does this RPM need to work? I presume it's built against the rebuilt GTKmm stack? Since those RPMs aren't available in public anywhere (well, except my download page, which I specifically don't want to make into a yum repo since it's not really supposed to be there...) I'm not so sure that providing this binary is really a good idea; the sane option in that case would be to provide the whole rebuilt stack (gtkmm, glibmm, libsigc++) until the FC3 Extras downloads are available.
Perhaps the simpler solution for now would just be to point Fedora users to the statically linked RPM; however, I think that it would in principle be a good idea to have a release number for the static package beginning with 0 (such as inkscape-0.40-0.x.ink.static, where X starts at 1 and is updated as new packages are built). The reason for this is that it is then likely to be overridden by the distro-specific packages, which is a good idea since things like menu integration and especially MIME type handling currently works differently on different distros and it would be a mess to try to get it right everywhere. (Things are getting standardized but things haven't really converged at a stable, working state everywhere yet.)
Best regards, Per