jiho wrote:
not if we can sort things out with DarwinPorts.
This would be the "killer feature" for 0.45 if it could be arranged. If you do a blog search for "inkscape osx" you would see how important this is to the average, non-developer users.
OSX guys are in the same predicament as Win32 guys, in that all of the fixes that people need to make the experience similar to Linux are happening on the Gtk source head, not any previous releases. And Inkscape is likely one of the prime users of the latest version, too. It's not "bleeding edge" hubris, but necessity. Which is why Win32 has not been using the same Gtk installation environment as Gimp, although that would so so much simpler.
Getting the Darwin Ports stuff onto a user's Mac is probably harder than it is for Win32. But wouldn't it possible to have an alternative pre-canned installation with all of the dependent things as a payload?
Just asking, I have no idea. (I goofed on the Gtk version already this week! :-)
But it might help to take advantage of OSX's simpler (than Unix) installations.
bob