Hi
As some of you might know Inkscape is outdated in Gentoo. Version 0.37 is marked as stable, 0.38, 0.39 and 0.40 are marked unstable (~ARCH) [1]. The reasons are that Inkscape is "known" to crash an startup for some people (see e.g. [2]). I am using 0.39 since it it released with the ebuild Gentoo provides as "unstable" and had _no_ problems at all. For Inkscape 0.40 there is the problems of new deps, esp. libboehm and gtmmm. See [3] for it. Furthermore there have been a lot reports about GLIB-crashes I never could reproduce. See [4] for a glib-crash in 0.40.
I hope that some of you could add comments to these 4 bugreports to help the gentoo-ebuild-writer. Gentoo is probably the only distro without a uptodate Inkscape and that is a shame. If you don't want to do it yourself write me a mail and I will add the comments.
Thanks in advance,
Carsten
[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=inkscape [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73743 [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71017 [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73619