• I have modified my local copy of the Scour extension for Inkscape to be able to make use of an external Scour package that is installed on the system
• I verified this solution to work on Ubuntu (in principle)
  
• I checked how we handle Python packages on Windows: We simply include them in the devlibs (as we do with Python itself) so they will be installed with the rest of the compiled files. This works flawlessly.

In order to make the transition there are however some open questions:

• The scour-python package was only updated to the latest version (which is 0.32) for unstable branches as you can see when following the links provided above. Stable branches still have 0.26-3 which is over 4 years old! Will those packets be upgraded in a timely manner or does this mean people using those distros are stuck? Just to be clear: Such old versions won't be compatible with the Inkscape extension (Scour wasn't even a real python module back then!). I only got it working by installing the package from xenial in my Ubuntu vivid (therefore the conditional above)
  
• What about Scour packages for MacOS? Where does one even get those and are those bundled with the installer (similar to Windows) or would those need to be added as requirements too (as in Linux)? I'm totally clueless here...
  

Also I'd need some help on certain points:

• How does one add a package requirement for Linux builds? Can somebody support me with this part in case we go through with it?
  
• Same question for MacOS. While I have mediocre knowledge of Linux I have never even used MacOS, so here I have no idea what to do.

Best Regards,
Eduard

On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 16:22 +0100, Eduard Braun wrote:

What does "prefer" mean in this context? Is this a strict limitation or 
could we still do it in case we lack a better solution?

They consider it broken. While it's unlikely inkscape would be thrown
out (it's too damn useful); they are right to ask us for a single
non-conflicting license for our packages.

Or would we have 
to somehow get scour packaged for every Distro out there? Then I doubt 
this would be a workable solution...

It should be available as python-scour on debian, if not then
is /should/ be packaged and many packagers would help us get it packages
for their system.

Either way we'd still need a way to include Scour in Mac/Windows builds 
which I assume complicates the whole process even more?

Of course, but it's not like we don't have other requirements included
for windows and mac builds already. I'm not sure of the process, but
maybe pip can be used to get the modules for those at build time.

Could you elaborate on that?
How do we "make sure that scour is available" and what would be "the 
various repositories for developers"?

The first people to be effected will be developers. So making sure they
can install it will be important. pip is a good candidate, but having it
in our ppa would be very useful too.

Best Regards, Martin Owens


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