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.
We all have Linux boxes on our desks because of the scale of processes we run. We can't afford to do our own system administration and our system administrators are not going to install a parallel, virtual operating system (Fedora) so that we can run some obscure vector drawing application (No matter how great it is. :-) )
In closing and speaking to you as a competitor, I suggest you place all integrated circuit development activities on hold and concentrate all corporate resources on this issue for the benefit the greater Inkscape user community.
Bill
Well, apparently the Inkscape devs should not be trying to use newer technology to make and "obscure" Inkscape better (so that it can be even more obscure and outdated).
Yes, the Inkscape (indeed, all open software) development world IS unbridled by the logistic and economic forces of the corporate world. It's that way be design - that's why it can be as great as it is.
So, to state your point precisely, you think that the people who develop Inkscape without pay should be adapting the software with their own unpaid time and unrepaid resources to work on your outdated system (RHEL 4 is in phase 2 - no new software functionality can be expected - it's obviously going to be outdated) for your commercial company, and God forbid that anyone should expect that a company which uses a software for a profit might spend some time and resources making it work for them.
Did I get that right?
Easy there, big fella'.
I was just sharing my on going frustration at not being able to download and use much of any software these days, including Inkscape (which is fabulous, even at 0.44).
In my mind I was contrasting this with my ability to develop software of some complexity using Qt and with little push back from my outdated system, but I would not want to say that out load for fear of spiraling this thread out of control.
... and when I said 'obscure' obviously I was relaying the response I would get from my sys admins if I asked them to install the latest Inkscape. Their primary goal is to provide software used by IC designers, not software used by in-house software developers who are writing software to be used by IC designers. My frustration mounts.
Bill