On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:50:33AM +0800, Derek Hinchliffe wrote:
It was my intention to document my efforts on the Inkscape wiki but alas, work took over and I ran out of time. I may be able to revisit it in the coming weeks and if I do I will put what I have on the wiki then.
That would be a great approach. Historically, the first people who tried getting Inkscape working on win32 and osx ran into all sorts of trouble, and ended up giving up in frustration, but before they dropped it, they wrote down what they'd gone through in wiki. Then, the next time someone asked about Inkscape on that platform, they took at look at that wiki page and dug into it too. They too got frustrated with it, but they'd gotten a bit further, so they added what they had learned. By the third or fourth time, someone actually got it to run, but it was full of other problems. Yet each person that worked on it, pushed it a little further along than the person before them, and inevitably Inkscape came to be installable on Windows and OSX.
Of course, there were some folks like Ishmal that have stuck with it throughout the whole process, and whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude to making it go, but I also note how effect the efforts of all these frustrated people added together.
Thus, I imagine for getting it to work natively on OSX, this same approach can be used - even though it is frustrating to not have it working 100% right out of the gate, don't worry - just note down as much as you can before you move off onto other things, and hopefully the next person to take interest in it will pick up from where you left off, and maybe by the next time you come back to it, it'll be there. :-)
Bryce