At the risk of making a post without any actual content, I just want to thank the Inkscape developers for all their hard work. Adobe Illustrator was my only reason for continuing to maintain a Mac, and I'm hopeful that I will soon be living my whole life the way God intended, with open-source software :-) It's really impressive that you folks have been able to maintain the kind of attention to craftsmanship that was the hallmark Sodipodi, while really putting the pedal to the metal in terms of features.
BTW, does anyone have an ETA for 0.40? I'm running 0.38 on FreeBSD, and apparently the maintainer of the FreeBSD port is waiting for 0.40 before putting a new version in the FreeBSD ports system, since 0.39 was broken on FreeBSD. (I hear the Debian maintainer created a package from the latest prerelease version...? -- hint hint ;-)
Quoth Ben Crowell on or about 2004-11-15:
ports system, since 0.39 was broken on FreeBSD. (I hear the Debian maintainer created a package from the latest prerelease version...? -- hint hint ;-)
For Debian users...
The 0.40pre2 has been officially packaged. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/inkscape
I also build a debian package from CVS about once every ten days. deb http://trent-buck.is-a-geek.net/~twb/deb unstable main
-trent
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Ben Crowell wrote:
At the risk of making a post without any actual content, I just want to thank the Inkscape developers for all their hard work.
Heya Ben, I remember you from FreeBooks project we worked on a few years back. Lion Kimbro's been kicking around here too.
Adobe Illustrator was my only reason for continuing to maintain a Mac, and I'm hopeful that I will soon be living my whole life the way God intended, with open-source software :-) It's really impressive that you folks have been able to maintain the kind of attention to craftsmanship that was the hallmark Sodipodi, while really putting the pedal to the metal in terms of features.
BTW, does anyone have an ETA for 0.40? I'm running 0.38 on FreeBSD, and apparently the maintainer of the FreeBSD port is waiting for 0.40 before putting a new version in the FreeBSD ports system, since 0.39 was broken on FreeBSD. (I hear the Debian maintainer created a package from the latest prerelease version...? -- hint hint ;-)
I think we're about ready to enter freeze, so that'd mean roughly a week or so after that.
Bryce
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