On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:

Yes, I definitely agree. After all, we"re application developers first, package distributors a distant second. We need to be looking for ways to move that responsibility upstream, as we"ve been able to do with the unix packages. We used to put great attention into crafting debian, gentoo, rpm, etc. packages each release for each distro, but as time has passed and as we"ve gotten into more and more distros, today we are able to mostly leave that work to the experts and focusing on just putting out a good core package. Being able to take that same approach with the Windows package would sure simplify things; consider how much trouble the Windows build has been this time through, and the extra work required for testing and fixing it up. If another group were able to take the responsibility for this, it would simplify our release process and enable the Inkscape releasers to focus even more on the software, rather than the packaging.

The gladewin32 project provides dependency packages for the win32 version of gnumeric if i'm not mistaken. It is very well maintained too. Maybe there would be a way to work together?

Best, Rob (not affiliated with any of the projects mentioned)