bulia byak wrote:
Looks like the win98 crash will not be fixed. I even submitted a bug to Gnome but it got no response so far:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316878
Since no one agreed to roll back windows libs to the previous working version, we have to officially drop support for this platform.
This saddens me immensely, it's a defeat which will likely affect my feelings towards the project. I have win98 on an older box that my wife and kids use, and now suddenly it has no latest Inkscape anymore. (Not that it worked there perfectly before, but at least it worked and was used quite often.)
Indeed, this is a shame. First, for some time GIMP stopped to support Win9x, now Inkscape follow the trend. We like to complain about Microsoft forcing users to expensive upgrades, but as disturbing as it is, free software does the same thing, force users to upgrade their Windows version.