On Dec 18, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2011/12/19 Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...>:
The question is when to start bumping the gtk+ version requirement for Inkscape? If we want to support LTS linux distros, we could be waiting a **very** long time.
LTS distros have their own LTS versions of Inkscape.
Of course it would be nice to work everywhere, but if you have an LTS distro, chances are that cutting edge features are not your focus. Installing a new version of Inkscape on such a system is kind of self-defeating: you want stability and consistency, but then you give it up by installing unstable software. Therefore I don't think we should hold back development for this use case.
I've seen a large portion of users that have a different focus there.
They aren't into bleeding edge OS updates, but instead are focused on applications themselves. That is, many people don't want to jump the OS each and every time they can, but they do like to keep apps moving.
This often comes from experience with things breaking. That is not only for Linux, but for mac users too. One extreme case was when I tried to update to a non-stock compiler (in which case the entire ports system had to get uninstalled and replaced to get back to a working state).
So for many (especially non-Gentu using) people, there is a distinction between upgrading apps and upgrading OS/compiler, etc. So they like a stable OS, but do look to improve the apps when they can.