Comment 21 for bug 179988

Duositex, your assumption is correct - with non-commercial open source software like Inkscape, which is driven mainly(*) through volunteer efforts, there isn't that firm distinction of roles between users and developers - really there are just contributors and non-contributors. I blogged about this more at http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/foss-win-paradox.

What you're reading from my comment is not defensiveness (not intentionally anyway!) but literally that yes, the burden of supporting Windows needs to lay within the Windows community. Not necessarily the person who reported the issue, but maybe someone who otherwise would assume fixing it was "someone else's problem". Ideally, a Windows person with development experience would look into this and sort it out, but lacking such a person, even a non-developer can assist in making progress with the bug as I mentioned in my previous comment.

Anyway, I asked Kees to outline his thoughts on what needs to be done technically. I think this may just be a packaging issue, that can be sorted out within the Windows build, outside the core. But someone on Windows needs to do the leg work of figuring this all out.