On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Ted Gould wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:39:38 -0700 From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: OSX packaging?
I think the key component that we're missing is provided by:
http://sveinbjorn.vefsyn.is/platypus
The platypus application wrapper, which makes Unix stuff easier to use in OS X. I'm curious if we can't use the relocatable binary feature with this to make a standard 'Inkscape.app' which would be totally relocatable. I'm not sure how they do it here:
http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/
But that is really what we want. I wonder if we could get the people doing that SF project to do a inkscape-app project also?
It would be much better if it were not done as a seperate project if at all possible. The GIMP developers leave packaging and binaries to third parties as much as possible to keep down the amount of things they have to maintain in addition to the myriad of esoteric plugins they arleady take care of (and I think it is easier for them not having to get Gnome CVS access for people). But if Inkscape can manage to keep things together and show a more coherent multi-platform approach it would be much better.
- Alan