donn wrote:
This sounds amazing to me - that it's harder to find *all* the deps for Linux than it is for Windows. Is it simply because you are new to the game or is it something Linuxy?
Not at all, it is more of a reaction. Finding and building all these libs on windows is much much more difficult and time consuming. Add that to the fact that windows lacks a good package manager like can be found in any linux distro. Inkscape has made it a priority to give those interested in building on windows the easiest time possible. (In hopes that we could attract more win32 developers because a large portion of our user base ins win32 but only a very small portion of our developer base.) Thanks to the hard work of Bob Jamison in collecting the packages we have a wonderful situation. A windows developer requires only three (rather large) downloads to compile inkscape.
Bear with me, I am still a little confused here. I understand you to be saying that you are trying to attract win32 developers and that there is a really good system now for compiling for windows, but I don't quite get why a static tar.gz solution for Linux is not possible.
It is possible. No one has volunteered. You're effort would be welcome.
Package managers like apt have made it very simple to find and install dependencies on linux for a long time now. If you are having difficulties file a bug against your distro.
I would be a little foolish to file a bug against Fedora 3, since it is so old. One of the things that unsettles me about Linux is the rapid rate of change. Even ubuntu goes bang, bang, bang every 6 months or so. I am trying to squeeze more life out of FC3, I kinda told myself I would change-up every 2 years. Perhaps I am doing things wrong, I dunno.
Stop. If Core 3 is too old for you to expect Fedora to support it. How can you even begin to demand that we do? Ubuntu makes a new release every 6 months and supports them for 18 months. But you really can't expect to run the latest software on a system that is 18 months old.
Aaron Spike