The metric I'm watching for this is the size of the inkscape-devel mailing list; when it hits 200-300 I will assume we're at the sweet spot. Based on the volume of list traffic I think we're already
pretty
close. :-)
I can understand the 200-300 as the ideal size of the developer community, but users? They don't have to be a community at all, and any attempts to limit their number seem utterly weird to me. I am not very excited to think that my work will be used by no more than 300 people in the whole world.
Very True. I get warm fuzzies when I look at the millions of direct download stats for AbiWord on sourceforge. Most of the direct downloads come from Windows users. But a large fraction of our developer strength is in Linux/GNOME. We have these sort of dependency arguments in AbiWord frequently too. But the bottom line is, with a good Windows installer (we use the NSIS installer ) it's not that hard to package up what you need for Windows. We also have the luxury of having a GTK-only build as well as a GNOME build which provides the full bloat^H^H^H^H^H power of the GNOME desktop to the user.
I suspect that at some point you'll also have to address the question of whether you want inkscape to be gtk-only or have GNOME (and/or GNOME-Office) integration. (Or even KDE integration given the way things are going on the inter-op front.)
Certainly libgnomeoffice and libgsf provide some nice features you might want soon. (A complete and powerful XP plugin framework and network transperency.)
From the GNOME-Office perspective we're very interested in your ideas for
a SVG rendering lib and actually having a state-of-the-art vector graphics app we can provide for our users.
Cheers
Martin.
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