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I'm equal parts awestruck and puzzled by these bordering-on-eternal beta stages some projects stick to. Inkscape has been in my toolbox for the last fifteen yea
by interfixus 8y ago
I'm equal parts awestruck and puzzled by these bordering-on-eternal beta stages some projects stick to. Inkscape has been in my toolbox for the last fifteen years or so, since around the time it forked from Sodipodi. I have thought of it as release, production ready software for years and years.
- _underfl0w_ 8y agoThe length of the beta is likely a function of the number of features of the given app. I would think that most apps wanting to compete in this space would be up against apps with insane amounts of features - think Adobe software - which would require a certain amount of time to test/fix per "feature". The same might be true of, for example, a Microsoft Office competitor. Lots of legacy functions tucked away in those apps. Just speculating since I've only personally tried fumbling around in Inkscape <5 times in my life, but it might explain the phenomenon.
- prokoudine 8y agoThe original versioning was designed with SVG 1.1 compliance in mind. At some point the figured out they aren't ever going to support 100% of SVG, so they jumped from 0.48.x to 0.91 (it was originally intended to be 0.49), and now they are jumping from 0.92.x to 1.0 :)
- michaelmrose 8y agoIf they were proprietary and had a marketing department they would be on version 10. Version numbers are subjective and mean little.