Hi,
I just downloaded the official Inkscape 0.47 release for Leopard/Snow Leopard and while Inkscape itself is running absolutely fast and awesome as soon as I touch anything that runs inkex.py the age old info message about the fantasting lxml2 library wrapper comes up again. Looking into the .app bundle I was surprised to find lxml2 and numpy installations for all (!) major python version going from 2.6 back to 2.3 this time.
Hmmmm... so what could be the problem? As we all know resetting my PATH won't (and didn't) work because the bootstrap system just builds its own PATH so what gives?
Well, it turns out that this mess is caused by the default Apple X11 running in 64 bit mode and thus all the python stuff included with Inkscape 0.47 is of the wrong architecture. (at least it says that when you remove the try: blocks in inkex.py and let it spit out the real tracebacks).
So I guess we need to include python stuff with 64 bit support with the official OSX release. (I tried building a 64 bit Python 2.6.4 myself but sheesh it's hard...)
Anyway just thought I'd report this (apologies if it's known already). It's not a deal breaker - Inkscape still rocks.
André
PS: I am on OSX 10.6.2 and I have MacPorts installed but X11 is the default one. And I can see it's shown as 64-bit app when it runs in Activity Manager.