Hi, someone pointed this status page out to me: http://www.inkscape.org/status/status_20031231.php
So I thought I would offer some advice, quoting that page:
A second and much more critical issue has been raised regarding Gtkmm. As planned since early in the project, we began incorporating Gtkmm into Inkscape following the 0.36 release. Quickly it became evident that this introduced severe dependency issues.
Gtkmm 2.x is not available commonly on most Linux distros.
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?
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
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
I don't know much about MacOS X these days, but I suspect that you want it as a Fink package. That should not be at all difficult to do. Please tell ask on the gtkmm-list if you need help with that. I would appreciate being CCed on any communication with the Fink people.
Murray Cumming www.murrayc.com murrayc@...167...