On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:21:25 -0500 From: Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@...19...> To: charlie@...208..., bryce@...1... Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, gnome-office-list@...45... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Joining GNOME Office
First, we have historically striven to avoid adding dependencies that are not common on a wide range of platforms. Of course, this means that
GnomeOffice apps should be designed with portability in mind. We best serve our user base by being flexible and nible. It is also important that we do
Inkscape works well on Win32 already. My only gripe is that the 0.37 release ships its own Glib and GTK instead of using the "system" ones. It annoys me
this was purely a decision by Bob Jameson to make things easier for testers. previous builds were seperate but there were more difficult to get going and I'm sure in due course he will switch back (or possibly even provide both, because I cannot get GTK to install properly on the f---ing 'locked down' windows machines in University).
that I and others have put so much time into getting GTK+ working and theming pixel-perfectly (GtkWimp) on Win32 and then have apps deploy their
I'm using GtkWimp with inkscape 0.37 on windows 98 and getting a shedload of font errors I really need to report ... (I'll get around to it sometime this week I hope).
own copies of same. I understand that there are real problems that you guys are trying to conquer by doing so, but I contend that there are better alternatives.
I'm sure Bob will sort it out, he already has cross compiled builds going and I'm well impressed.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan Inkscape Tester ;)