On 25/06/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
On Jun 25, 2006, at 12:31 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote:
Fedora Core 4. Possibly CentOS 4.2 (see bug 1505373)?
Let me stress that the recent problems with compiling 0.44 on FC4 only happened because NO SINGLE PERSON tested the prereleases with a pure glib-2.4 system.
True...
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Oh, another driving platform as far as I'm concerned would be OS X. That's my main OS at the moment, so I have ulterior motives for keeping it build-able there. :-) At the moment, fink is only up to GTK+ 2.6.10. http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gtk+2
Now.... if some people were to help getting native GTK+ working well on OS X, then that would free at least that particular dependency. It *might* be practical for a 0.46 timeframe, but not 0.45 (though good enough for devs might be doable in that timeframe).
Jon, I'm sorry that I missed this when you originally posted in this thread, you are of course 100% correct, unfortunately so is every other comment: I don't see a single path forward that will work for everyone, and we are probably left with Bryce's original proposal that the time has come to move on regardless of 'pain'. Long term planning is not often a vital part of FLOSS development, but minimising the effort required today, for today's work is. Even so, I would agree that GTK 2.10 and native would be a good goal for 0.46; Apart from supporting you, I would suggest progressively up-rating the requirements as per Ralf's post - people who are using the latest versions of Inkscape cannot but be aware of the need for Inkscape to have near contemporary (stable) UI libraries.
For Mac OS X, perhaps we ought to concentrate on
* Delivering Universal Binaries * Creating an XCode or Project Builder project * Native GTK+
To my mind this is roughtly in order of importance to users, and so it must be noted that the first on this list likely depends on the second which ought therefore to have priority. Native GTK+ support may seem like icing on the cake, particularly as it would move the Mac OS version into the next ball park (or whatever is the cognate of a quantum change), the next league perhaps, but I am sure that it is not as difficult as it sounds.
Ben