jiho wrote:
use I would prefer not to because:
- 1.2.6 is the stable release and 1.3.x is the unstable one
- it would mean not using a package distribution system to resolve
Inkscape dependencies which actually means more trouble for people compiling Inkscape on OS X (unless we switch to Michael build script, but then again, package distribution systems are precisely there to avoid us some trouble in these respects). There are very few of us so it can be seen as a minor annoyance but, in my point of view, it is one more barrier to get _more_ people helping to compile and test development versions of Inkscape on OS X
Inkscape is still <1.0, so trying new things is something that we must do. We really don't even have a version yet.
We only need to think about stability after we have a 1.0+ baseline. The next release will be extra special, because we are going to start worrying about an Inkscape API. How about that? Talk about scary! :-)
Our synchronicity with Cairo is a wonderful thing. We can weed out all of the minuses and share the pluses and help to make each other the best agents in our domains.
bob