On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 14:09 +0100, C R wrote:
but if you start pulling the plug now on Windows development
No one is going to stomp on windows developers. I think Bryce was thinking out loud with a mooted elsewhere story there.
Inkscape has always invited developers to maintain the parts that they care about the most. And we're really freeking lucky to have some good windows and macosx packagers (and testers, and even some development) to get inkscape working on those platforms.
What we were sort of saying is that windows users are many and we should be able to support them better. We could do that by asking them to contribute funding, especially for those self same windows packagers and developers. If the volume is big enough, us linux developers wouldn't have any bad feelings about having win clutter in the code.
But that's just economics. The other half was education and we got a bold load of stuff on that list. Everything from why are open standards like svg good for you, to where can you get a job doing inkscape art and design. But we can work on all these points with community building too.
Thanks for your explanation of your position. I don't agree with every point, but our positions are not incoherent. :-)
Martin,