An 0.41 release would be very helpful. I'm collaborating on a book with someone, and he's intimidated by having to compile the latest CVS in order to get a certain crucial bug fix. He could download a nightly build, but I'm not sure if he'd have problems with libraries. Once 0.41 comes out, I can just tell him to download the statically linked binary.
It would be interesting to hear from some of the packagers about how things are going. IIRC the person handling the FreeBSD port is struggling to fix some memory leaks introduced by the new garbage collector (OS-specific, apparently), so the BSD port is still at 0.38. I think the debian package is also lagging?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:33:32AM +0000, Ben Crowell wrote:
I think the debian package is also lagging?
I'd say on the contrary that the Debian package is the best package we have. 0.40 was in Debian unstable almost as soon as 0.40 was released, as the Debian maintainer (Wolfi) had been following the prereleases.
Inkscape 0.40 still hasn't reached the `testing' distribution. Originally this was because Inkscape until very recently had a compilation bug on mips (global offset table too large; the fix, provided by a Debian person, was to pass -xgot to the assembler).
Since then a new `grave' bug has been filed against inkscape (doesn't work with the newest version of Window Maker), though the indications so far are that that's a bug with wmaker rather than inkscape, so maybe inkscape 0.40 will be able to enter testing within the next two weeks.
pjrm.
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