Quote from: brynn on July 28, 2019, 05:16:36 PM
In proprietary programs, they don't want bugs to see the light of day, because it will cost them money. So they keep all that discussion in private channels.
I dunno. There are a lot of bug reports and other complaints on forums dealing with Microsoft and Adobe products.
Does that make you wonder if MS and Adobe products are flakey? Or did I misunderstand your comments? It sounded like you found discussion of bugs to be a bad thing, so I was grasping for some logical explanation.
So do you agree with me that the 92.4 install program not checking the OS and informing me that XP is not supported is a bug? If you really want new users to adopt the product, you would do everything possible to make getting started as problem-free as possible. My suggestion would be that the first thing it would do I check the OS version. If it is not supported, tell the user that and then tell them where to get an older version that does.
Just my 2 bits
Well I guess I can see both sides of the argument.
On one hand, of course it would be convenient for those people who are still using XP, to see such a warning when they try to upgrade Inkscape.
On the other hand, I wonder how many Inkscape users are still using XP? And how many of them aren't aware that it's officially unsupported? Just some very quick research, I found one version of XP with EOL (end of life) in 2009. All the other versions EOL in 2005 and 2006. So that's 10 years ago in the best case. It's hard to see it being worth developers' time to write this feature into the code, for so few users who might need it. (keeping in mind the open source angle, meaning that Inkscape developers are not paid for their work)
If some reason existed for a larger than normal segment of the user population to be using an older os (for example, some compatibility issue with some needed companion program), that might make it more important. But I can't think of any reason that might be affecting a large group of users. As far as I'm aware, those who are still using XP have their own reasons, which are not related to Inkscape.
However, if you're aware of some reason why Inkscape users want to keep using XP, that is related to Inkscape, please do explain. We certainly can refer your comments to developers.
Or of course, because Inkscape is open source, anyone can make a bug report, or discuss issues with developers. So you're welcome to make your comments directly to developers. This message explains the different ways you can contact them:
https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=628.0(By the way, did you find an older version of Inkscape? In the column on the right side of this page, you can access older versions:
https://inkscape.org/release/ )
