On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Sent: 01 February 2011 22:30 To: 'Krzysztof Kosiński' Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; lib2geom- devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Lib2geom-devel] Upgrading Inkscape's 2geom
-----Original Message----- From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] Sent: 01 February 2011 21:49 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; lib2geom- devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lib2geom-devel] Upgrading Inkscape's 2geom
The Cairo version should be mostly usable right now, but requires using a development release of Cairo that fixes some precision problems with gradients.
How long will it take for this to be fixed?
I meant: how long will it take for the fix to be released in a stable (read: usable by Inkscape) version?
Difficult issue... Win32 we bundle the libs, so as soon as it's released we can update the libs. It should theoretically be in the next round of distro releases if they're (cairo folks) aiming for a 6 month cycle. If I'm not mistaken, Macports tends to keep things reasonably current. So, for 2/3 platforms it should be good in short order... but the Linux world varies quite a bit given LTS & Enterprise users, people who wait for things to be out for a while before updating, etc. The main thing though is that LTS users also wouldn't expect the latest and greatest version of Inkscape for their installs unless they compile themselves, in which case I think it's basically a "tough luck" situation. For them, we have the bug fixed 0.48.x series which is stable, just how they like things. ;)
Cheers, Josh