On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Void wrote:
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:41:32 +1000 From: Void <void@...1436...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rejuvenate Sodipodi as 'Inkscape Lite'
Bryce, Thanks very much for taking the time to give such a detailed reply.
To explain a little bit more about the situation. The official 'standard' Puppy Linux liveCD is intended to run on older PCs and to load totally into RAM. Hence my interest in a smaller Inkscape.
You may also be interested in this http://michaels770.blogspot.com/ since he ported Sodipodi to the 770 due to similar size requirements http://michaels770.blogspot.com/2006/04/sodipodi-graphics-editor-svg.html
I downloaded 0.36 and it compiled ok. Note, I used '--without-gnome-print' -- Puppy does have libgnomeprint, libgnomecanvas, and libgnomeprintui, as required for Abiword and Gnumeric, but Inkscape seems to need more than that.
I've heard far too many complaints about this "requirement" for gnome print. Technically Abiword can be built without those requirements but not if you care about high quality printing. For a long time Abiword used a built in postscript subsystem but the quality and more importantly reliability compared to gnomeprint was not great. Perhaps it wasn't your intention to sound like you were blaming Abiword but I want to make sure you understand the reasons gnome print is required.
Also so you know I do not think anyone has extensively tested --gnome-print with inkscape and it is has been there since sodipodi. (I'm surprised no one tested it more since it could have been a good way to generate PDF.)
I'm proposing to call this (assuming I fix the printing!) "InkscapeLite" and the executable "inkscapelite" and arrange so there is no clash if the full Inkscape package is installed later by a Puppy user.