18 February 2010

Cutting etge/really blunt edge

I, for one, feel an itching seeing Inkscape 0.48 in "chill" - this means just before "freeze" and on the way to "release" and start thinking about a jump to Rawhide as soon as it's version will be upgraded but on the other hand I see people in a different situation: big company with "RHEL4 on thousands of workstations" crying about being stuck with (self built) 0.46 and preparing a migration to RHEL5 now, in the spring of 2010, and crying their old building script won't work with 0.47 (EPEL has 0.44 for RHEL4 and 0.46 for RHEL5).

Definitely, I couldn't live with a desktop/workstation like that: no rush for the latest version, not getting hit by early bugs, no fun (even if I, for example, never used for real anything in the "Filters" menu introduced in 0.47).

3 comments:

  1. Nicu, 0.47 mostly works with EL-5. I've spent some time making it work there and though probably some of the latest changes there may have broken it a bit, it won't be hard to built it (see the fedora src rpm).

    Also, I look forward to updating the package in Rawhide (targetting F-14) to 0.48 shortly.

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  2. This is why no-frozen-rawhide is awesome. Using released Fedora versions is so pedestrian!

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  3. Thanks for the info Lubomir, I will pass the info about building for EL-5 to the guy who asked about that on the Inkscape mailing list.

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