Hi, all!
I've been busy with other things for the last 7 months, but I want to make up for it somewhat. Sorry!
I've been told that the "devlibs" bundle on Modevia seriously needs updating, so I will start doing that with what people need, and what they agree upon.
After adding msvcr80.dll to the devlibs, I was told that Python's libs need updating in general. We have been wanting to use Python 2.6 for over a year now, but a couple of the dependencies, (lxml and numpy) have held us back.
I looked at their project pages, and it appears that there are 2.6-usable win32 binary builds available for them.
So, the question is: is everyone comfortable with updating Python to 2.6? It's the version 'at the precipice.' Being the last version before 3.0, there is some expectation of permanence.
Things work correctly now for 2.5, but moving to 2.6 will allow updating UniConvertor to 1.1.4, which helps toward fixing a bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996/comments/39
bob (ishmal)