donn wrote:
Aaron, I do apologize for being irritating, but I feel up against a wall with nowhere to turn for help. If you read my repost you will see I added some stuff at the front. I acknowledged the reply from ralf in there.
You haven't irritated me. :-) From the beginning of your reply I got the impression that it was just a repost and that you hadn't noticed Ralf's response. Perhaps if you had replied with the same subject I wouldn't have made this mistake. I apologize.
The thing is I don't hold much hope that 0.44.1 or whatever, is going to compile with much luck. My Fedora version is a little old and keeping up with dependant libs is a problem.
IMHO, If Ralf says the problem is fixed, you can be very confident it is. Does yum have a command similar to `apt-get build-dep`? That would help you significantly in building your own rpm.
So, if there is someone who can help with: a. The autopackage problem
This problem is mine. I'm rather inexperienced in the dark arts of building software on linux and I have yet to be successful in making the 0.44 autopackage link properly. It seems that there are a few people having difficulties building autopackages with Ubuntu.
b. An RPM for FC3
0.44 will not build on core 3, as you have experienced. But these problems are believed fixed in SVN. And I assume what Ralf meant when he suggested waiting for 0.44.1, was that you should wait for an RPM. Even then we will only be able to offer a Core 3 RPM if a volunteer steps forward to build one.
c. Some discussion relating to my last question about inkspace vs Firefox/Thunderbird
It would be a large package. :-) The autopackage attempts this in part, but only collects the rarest deps, but until I am successful, it is not an option. This also relates to your comments about windows. The windows package works because we ship it with the very latest versions of all of the dependencies. People often claim that we are wasting resources by not sharing dependencies with other apps. But no one has stepped up to fix the problem. You are making the opposite argument for linux. Likewise no one has show enough interest to fix the problem.
Lastly, I'd like to point out that Fedora is meant as a leading edge distro and Core 3 is aged. How can you expect bleeding edge software to compile and run without issue on a system that is already a few releases behind. The Inkscape project tries as much as possible not to leave users behind, but there come times when we must move forward and require newer versions of our dependencies. A larger problem is that we have no active participants running Core 3. So it receives no testing.
I hope this answers some of your questions. And I invite you to step forward and fill the voids that you have uncovered.
Aaron Spike