Hi all,
In grateful appreciation to ACSpike and his friends at Modevia.com for their continuing altruism and generosity, I want to inform people who are using the devlibs that we finally have the devlibs served via Subversion.
The devlibs are now available here: https://svn.modevia.com/inkscape/devlibs
However, to keep bandwidth down, I beseech people to get the 7zip of the repository: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-svn-0805081735.7z
Unzip that as your initial working copy, then do svn updates after that.
Yes, it is huge (117mb), but it is not as bad as a 300mb svn checkout.
So in the future, when there are changes to the devlibs, all you need is an occasional "svn up", and no more monolithic downloads.
By the way, I have a question: do we still need to have Perl in the /devlibs?
bob