On 2014-05-06 24:46 +0100, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> I downloaded su_v version on my Mac running Mavericks. I was able to build
> and run Inkscape. It's very very nice.
>
> Thank's ~suv for your efforts! I don't use Macport or any other build
> system relying on my own gtk builds. I used my gray interface with white
> icons from gnome-looks.org (
> http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Inkscape+white+icons?content=162382).
> My builds are compatible with Snow-Leopard (64-bit) and above.
>
> Couple of minor issues: On a Mac, usually preference and about are in the
> main menu

I did mention the menu layout as missing feature several times (here on
the mailing list and on the branch page too). Patches are welcome :-)

> and I was not able to open EPS files (got a parsing error with
> "expecting "<" ...).

Since you don't share details about how your app was created (I assume
you used custom packaging routines, too, besides your own build env for
the dependencies), I can only guess what the underlying issue might be:

1) Is your Inkscape.app (Inkscape-0.48-dev) able to open PDF files?
(these kind of parser errors are known from contexts where PDF
support in Inkscape is broken - e.g. because poppler was configured
without xpdf headers, or not built in at all).

(If poppler support was not properly compiled in,
'org.inkscape.input.pdf' might be a logged missing dependency for input
formats like PS and EPS (see 'extension-errors.log' in the inkscape user
profile dir used by Inkscape.app - the exact location depends on whether
you used the launcher script of the 'osxmenu' branch, or your own)).

2) Did you verify that the bundled ps2pdf and GhostScript (I assume you
included it in the app bundle, since it is a required helper app for
PostScript input in Inkscape) works as expected?

> You can see a screenshot here:
> http://www.partha.com/temp/McInkscape-0.48-dev.png

Great :)