Hey All,
Chris Morgan has submitted a patch for packaging a portable version of inkscape. There is one thing which is additionally distributed with these builds that I feel I should ask the group about. There is a help.html file for the portable version which has a button for donating to support portableapps.com. Attached is an image of the page.
Optionally we could otherwise just link to it being hosted on portableapps.com, but it does seem like people would probably be more comfortable if it were officially supplied by the project.
Opinions?
Cheers, Josh
Weird that the image was not right... trying again.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Joshua A. Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey All,
Chris Morgan has submitted a patch for packaging a portable version of inkscape. There is one thing which is additionally distributed with these builds that I feel I should ask the group about. There is a help.html file for the portable version which has a button for donating to support portableapps.com. Attached is an image of the page.
Optionally we could otherwise just link to it being hosted on portableapps.com, but it does seem like people would probably be more comfortable if it were officially supplied by the project.
Opinions?
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Opinions?
Doesn't bother me. Can a "Support Inkscape" button be added too?
Now that I think about it, some PortableApps.com applications do that. See http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/miranda_portable for the first example I found that did it. I propose then that we add in another such line linking to http://inkscape.org/donate.php and merge into it the contents of http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_Wiki:Site_support, and add a menu item to it on the site as well. Which is the "preferred" or whatever donation method? I note that US$25,000 is the maximum the Google Checkout one supports :P
Josh, I'm sure you can cope with copying and pasting a line of HTML and modifying the text in it, do what you reckon :-)
-- Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...400...>
I'm good at making two things: mistakes and enemies.
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:17 +1100, Chris Morgan wrote:
Josh, I'm sure you can cope with copying and pasting a line of HTML and modifying the text in it, do what you reckon :-)
You know I'm cool with that being in their version. If nothing else I think that it's roughly the same as SF.net having ads on the download page. You can just choose to keep it ad free by donating :)
--Ted
2009/10/7 Joshua A. Andler <scislac@...400...>:
Hey All,
Chris Morgan has submitted a patch for packaging a portable version of inkscape.
I am wondering, would it be desirable to have a build time switch that would cause Inkscape to be built with all resources "built in" and all libraries statically linked, so that Inkscape would be a bare executable with no file dependencies? This would be done by converting all necessary resource files to C sources containing variables (somewhat like XPM) using a Waf script. I don't know whether e.g. gettext and GTK would play nice with this though.
Regards, Krzysztof
2009/10/8 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>
2009/10/7 Joshua A. Andler <scislac@...400...>:
Hey All,
Chris Morgan has submitted a patch for packaging a portable version of inkscape.
I am wondering, would it be desirable to have a build time switch that would cause Inkscape to be built with all resources "built in" and all libraries statically linked, so that Inkscape would be a bare executable with no file dependencies?
No. As it is now it works fine. If we did that, the issues would be many too many. Wherever possible, it's a good idea to minimize the number of different distributions... otherwise if someone has an issue with Inkscape Portable you've got to see if it happens in Inkscape, and if it doesn't, pinpoint it... currently compression with UPX is the only extra, which very occasionally causes trouble with PortableApps.com applications but is almost always fine. Static linking would be unlikely to save much space either.
This would be done by converting
all necessary resource files to C sources containing variables (somewhat like XPM) using a Waf script. I don't know whether e.g. gettext and GTK would play nice with this though.
It's unlikely that they would. Even more reason not to try :-)
-- Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...400...>
I'm good at making two things: mistakes and enemies.
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Ted Gould