Hi, all, again!
For some time now, people have been struggling with getting extensions to work on win32. They have been burdened with downloading Perl, Python, PyXML, etc and installing them. We have been carrying Perl and Python DLLs in our distro for the purposes of internal scripting for a while. The interpreters can be invoked ok, but we have not been supplying any supporting libs.
I have been saying for months that we should have enough of Perl and Python in the library bundle to be able to provide this in the distro. However, I guess that I have been too lazy to actually work on it.
Today I started experimenting with getting Python to work, and have had some success. I added a small class (win32 only) to dynamically add the ./perl and ./python subdirectories to the app-specific PATH for Inkscape. I also updated the Python subdir in the bundle to one that already has PyXML installed. This seems to work, as far as Python is concerned. I am in the middle of uploading a new build and a new library bundle with the new capability. The build is currently too big, with the entire Python lib included, but people can experiment with pruning things out of it to see what can be left out and get the size back down.
It will be a while before it is uploaded, but it will be at http://inkscape.org/win32/gtk28-051226.7z
Bob
Bob Jamison wrote:
It will be a while before it is uploaded, but it will be at http://inkscape.org/win32/gtk28-051226.7z
And here is the build: http://inkscape.org/win32/Inkscape0512261640.zip
And, yes, it is really much too large.. but if someone can help me find out what can be trimmed out of the python directory, we can make it a more reasonable size.
bob
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