On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:15 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Thus, I think we've given more than adequate wait time for Fink to upgrade to 2.8. Given that there is a new issue which necessitate going to gtk 2.8 now, I'd propose that we drop the previous agreement and move up the gtk version for this release.
Does it matter that fink is still at 2.4(stable)/2.6(unstable)?
It matters in as much as most of the Mac OSX Inkscape developers were using fink as it is the easiest and most non-intrusive way to install the required Inkscape dependencies on OSX.
I'm currently working on merging some of the features of the Immendio build script (mentioned before as an easy way to install native versions of GTK head and it's all its dependencies) and a similar build script that David Himelright contributed for building GTK 2.8+ and all its dependencies as a replacement for fink after the dicussion we had when switching to GTK 2.8 was initially proposed.
My plan here is for a script that will allow installation and updating of a fink like tree of all the Inkscape dependencies, as well as allowing this to be built as Universal versions which would be incredibly useful for creating offical Universal OSX releases.
I'm pretty busy this week, but I will try and get this script committed next weekend so that others can try it out and contribute to it.
My feeling is not to wait on fink any longer and just go ahead and update Inkscape to depend on GTK 2.8. The pool of people compiling Inkscape on OSX seems small enough that we can switch to a different method involving a custom script or via DarwinPorts if anyone wants to investigate that.
Cheers, Michael