Nevertheless .Net applications have such dependencies (for example Paint.NET) and some times users get info message like &quot;You need installing .Net xxx version to run this program&quot;. The simplest way is include UniConvertor MSI package &quot;as is&quot; into Inkscape installer and install it by default running MSI. But users should have ability to skip UniConvertor installation if they already installed it. Also MSI package has unique UID so user will get warning about possible installation clash. Similar pattern is used in Sun Java JDK installer which has JRE installer inside. Thus we could simplify win32 version of Inkscape skipping UniConvertor code maintenance and provide more flexible solution for end users.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Igor Novikov<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Lewis, Simon <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Simon.Lewis@...2371...">Simon.Lewis@...2371...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">










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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Hi Igor<br>
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As a „seasoned“ Linux user (8 years openSUSE – 3 years Fedora)
I agree this would be the best pattern, especially as the RPMs automatically
install any dependencies like UniConvertor (when specified as „Requires:“
in the rpm spec file) and UniConvertor would be kept up-to-date through the
package manager.<br>
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But Windows users don’t think like this and don’t understand when separate
programs need to be installed for full functionality. Perhaps the Inscape windows
installer needs to be more intelligent and look for an existing UniConvertor
installation before installing static libraries?<br>
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Best regards, Simon</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Igor Novikov
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Lewis, Simon<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Nicolas Dufour;
<a href="mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Inskape 0.48pre1 -
Error message when saving as wmf</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Simon!<br>
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But actually external installation of UniConvertor is the best pattern (like
under Linux) because we are going to accelerate <br>
UniConvertor development and provide short life cycles for versions (2-3
months). Now we are receiving bug reports from <br>
Inkscape win32 users about 1.1.3 version and therefore we have prepared
external variant with integration patch to resolve <br>
issues. So external installation will allow users easy upgrade UniConvertor and
keep up to date it. Also from 1.1.5 version <br>
internal UniConvertor structure has a lot of native dependencies so built-in
variant will not be easy way for maintenance. <br>
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Regards,<br>
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Igor Novikov<br>
sK1 Project<br>
<a href="http://sk1project.org" target="_blank">http://sk1project.org</a></span></font></p>

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