Here is a summary of different posts about OS X,
It appears we will be at least three doing some OS X builds (which is great!) Jonathan Chetwynd Michael Wybrow myself (Jean-Olivier Irisson by the way ;-) )
Personally, I still need CVS access:
Sure I can set him up; what's the SF id?
Bryce, my SF id is: irisson
Instructions for building inkscape are in the wiki as Kees pointed out:
In the CVS tree, there is packaging/osx-app.sh, and in the Wiki there is http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX
But compared to what Michael told me this wiki is out of date (and a bit of a mess in addition). I'll be glad to modify it if I am authorized to do so. I guess that the whole bottom part of the page could go in a News/History section (or even suppressed completely??) and that the top of the page could be transformed a real "How to".
Then the web site has to be changed in the development build section. I could change the downloads_en.php and eventually the french one when it comes out (or translate it myself if needed) but not the german one. I tried to catch up on the web site translation process but I didn't manage to understand everything. Did it involves .po file or is it just a matter of writing a downloads_fr.php file? To change them do I commit in cvs or do I create a patch file (now that I know how to do it thanks to the great wiki!)
As soon as I am granted access I will post the latest dmg I have (from CVS of the day before yesterday) and change the website according to your recommendations.
Then we should decide on a schedule for the builds. I think I could do weekly development builds from CVS. What about the two others? By the way, I'm no on Tiger it would be nice to see if everything still works on Panther (the Panther build I am using still does well on Tiger so I guess there won't be problems this way).
Finally, I remarked that inkscape interface is very slow in OS X compared to other equally memory hungry X11 applications (like the gimp). My guess is that it's because Inkscape icons are parsed from an svg file whereas gimp icons are from png files. does anybody thinks this can be the case? if yes: 1- would it be possible to use png icons in the OS X build to make it more usable? if it is possible would it be desirable? in that case what are the changes to make? 2- do you think that "simpler" svg icons would change anything?
Thank you in advance for all the answers I'm asking for. Hope all this will help OS X users to use inkscape!
JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/