[Inkscape-devel] Support for Win95 (was: Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!)

Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:

The Windows case is not that perfect. Inkscape had to drop support for Windows 95/98/ME because one of the dependencies (gtk+) was not working anymore on those operating systems (and nobody bothered enough to fix the regression at the gtk level).

Isn't the Gtk requirement of 0.44 the same as for 0.43? I thought it was a concious decision to drop Win95 in favour of stability and bug fixes only available in later versions of Gtk..

You should be able to use both Gtk 2.4 and 2.6 (matching the requirements for Inkscape 0.44 and 0.45?) on Windows 95/98/ME, but the current Windows installer comes with Gtk 2.8(?). Has anyone tried to build a Win95 version of Inkscape by linking against a lesser version of Gtk?