Aaron Spike wrote:
Bryce and I were of the opinion that cutting the release early was important to get Inkscape 0.45 into the upcoming linux distros. The packaging problems are a bit frustrating and embarrassing but I think our priorities are in the right place. A few days to wait for packages versus 6 or more months to get into a distro release.
A good call in my opinion, although I was sad that the release note went out without the packages being there. It's why I have waited sending the release note around to friends :)
My first suggestion is redundancy among packagers. Packaging teams should help to increase our buss number. Community members, if you have even a remote interest in packaging please step forward.
<steps forward> I am willing to team up with Adib to provide the windows packages. I'm completely new to this (I guess it is more than running buildtool and zipping the resulting dir?), which makes it interesting/challenging for me: i.e. motivating.
Cheers, Johan