On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Carsten Niehaus wrote:
As some of you might know Inkscape is outdated in Gentoo.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.
Yeah, I'm also using Inkscape on Gentoo with no problems. I went through the bug reports and commented on a couple of them. #2 smells a bit like a gimpgrad extension issue we worked on last week. The others I have no clue on.
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.
Yeah, it's quite a shame that it's not included in stable. On the other hand, I'm glad they're so fickle, now I understand why Gentoo has been so reliable for me. ;-)
Anyway, I've added a few comments and hope we can get all these problems sorted out, and that we'll see Inkscape 0.40 in Gentoo stable soon.
Bryce