bulia byak wrote:
I'd like to revisit the issue of shipping Windows package with their own Python/PyXML. By now I use Aaron's python extensions all the time, they are immensely useful. Not as convenient as native solutions would be, but still a lot of fun and an important part of my design work. The current instructions page for Windows:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GettingEffectsWorking/Windows
is way too scary for an average user. Python alone might be OK, but PyXML on top of that is certainly too much. I think very few dedicated users would venture into this.
So, what do you think about including a minimum Python/PyXML into the Windows installer and enabling extensions by default? I think the file size increase won't be intolerably big.
Hi, Bulia!
I've mentioned this before. In our gtk2.8 library bundle, we have complete Python and Perl packages. Currently, we only copy in the Inkscape distro directory the DLL's necessary for Inkscape to run. All we need is for someone to investigate what is necessary to be copied into that directory for perl and python to run correctly. So we have the ability already, but we just have not implemented it. This would be a really cool thing to provide.
Bob