Am 03.04.2019 um 00:37 schrieb doctormo@...400...:
On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 00:26 +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote:
Added the eqtexsvg info to the release notes. Do we know how many people were depending on it for their LaTeX typesetting? Could we maybe ask for external testing, if testing via CI isn't possible?
That's a part of the question. Can we ship extensions that don't work by default? I think that's what the inx is designed to allow but it doesn't do much for our sanity.
This would be made better by the future extensions manager, as such extensions could be held outside of inkscape's dist until the users needs them and asks for them.
Would we be willing to wait for that for these extensions?
Martin,
I think "Render -> Latex" has some decent userbase, so we might want to think twice before dropping it. Obviously it should work for a release, though (else it's of little use).
Considering LaTeX is primarily used by people with a technical/scientific background who might be able to understand some Python, we might also have a good chance at recruiting some help here (question is how to reach those users, though, before shipping a "broken" release).
On a side-note there are at least wo other third-party extensions that do effectively the same and are likely better maintained (so there might be some "oversaturation"), but I've not used any of them actively, so I can't speak to the differences.
As for the general question: Yes, I thinks users would expect us to keep extensions with additional dependencies, unless they're directly available from an upstream repo/source, to which we can easily link in the release notes.
Cheers, Patrick