Murray.Cumming@...166... wrote:
It is easily available for debian and RedHat/Fedora, from official distro sources: http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml
A Mandrake developer assured me that they would ship it, but I don't have a Mandrake installation and I don't know how to check that. I'm fairly sure that it's easily available for Gentoo.
SUSE have no public bug tracking or feedback system that I know of, but hopefully that will get better. With no contributions system, you will have difficult installing Inkscape on SUSE whether or not you need gtkmm.
What other distros are you interested in?
Of course it is available. The question is, "Is it already there?" The average blue-haired old lady might be puzzled a bit by a dialog: "You must have gtkmm-2.4-x.rpm installed for Inkscape to work" 'RPM Hell' is becoming a major part of the Download Factor.
On Windows it adds to the DLL download weight.
I'm not sure what significance the download size has these days. By the way, gtkmm is easily installable on Windows: http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml
This is the other major part. Every little bit hurts. If we need it, include it. (We already did for a week or so.) But don't frivolously add dependencies. This is true especially for DLLs, as the libraries are supplied monolithically; you cannot choose which elements of a given library that you want.
Most distressingly, it isn't yet ported to OSX.
It builds, and works, and Julian Missig built a darwinports package: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2003-December/msg00122.html
This is excellent. The only issue I can think of, is that we should keep track of what version of GCC made the gtkmm and sigc++ libs, and make sure that the version we use has the same ABI.
Bob