On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:58 -0500, william.crocker@...2677... wrote:
Beims Bob-RWBC70 wrote:
Bill;
You're hitting the same wall that we hit here at my company last year. We run RHEL4 on thousands of workstations, and spent many, many hours trying to get 0.46 to build for our standard image. We also spent many hours trying to find a prebuilt package with no luck.
The Inkscape development community appears to live in a utopian world unbridled by the logistic and economic forces which tend to dominate our decisions in the corporate world.
Bob - thanks for jumping in and sharing your experience. Bill - I understand your frustration. I once felt much the same stuck on a windows box at a client site unable to access the latest and greatest Inkscape I was used to running at home on Ubuntu.
Here's a thought:
If you guys are still both using RHEL4 - do you have a Red Hat support contract? If yes - maybe you could ask them to backport Inkscape for you? Supporting a distro that old is really beyond the capacity of a volunteer support army like those of us here - but Red Hat should have the internal skills and know how to get it working for you. The catch is you just might have to pay for that expertise...
Red Hat themselves are now onto RH5 and phasing out RH4 - but I'm sure they've still got customers on older versions... it might be worth a try... Hey - I know a few people at Red Hat...
<time passes because I sent this from the wrong email address>
so I called a Red Hat employee who indicated he would be willing to help us out!
So Bill and Bob - can you forward me more specifics off list so I can get my friend to help you both? His first thought is that there must be a YUM repository out there somewhere that has a build you can use, and if not, he'd be willing to help investigate a back port.
And - as part of all this, let's see if we can do something about the documentation at the same time.
cheers Donna