I'm keeping https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX up-to-date with the MacPorts instructions. I'm up for simplifying the page to a bare minimum, but I wouldn't remove it (some redundancy with instructions for other environments will be unavoidable). Thomas On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 2:41 AM René de Hesselle <dehesselle(a)icloud.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi Max, > > thank you. > > 1.) We have to decide what to do about the macOS related stuff. The most up-to-date instructions, based on how our CI pipeline works, are in packaging/macOS/README.md. Although I’m working really hard on making this more attractive (e.g. we have disk images containing the complete toolset including all dependencies), people are more used to MacPorts and the likes. For instance, speleo3 is using MacPorts as well. > Luckily it’s not a problem how people are getting themselves set up to develop and it does not hurt to offer multiple choices. We could link to my instructions and speleo3 would need to update the MacPorts ones. > > 2.) The last item on your list is one of the most important ones to me: we need to remove all redundancies (for all the platforms) and create a single point of truth. We often have the same kind of information scattered around in multiple places, in varying degrees of quality and age. If we really need something in multiple places, we should keep it in one and link to it from all the other ones. And that should no only include the wiki but extend to the website and wherever else information has been dumped before (no offense). > If this sounds too much / out of scope for what you’ve had planned for yourself to do, we should put it on a todo list. (Also I’m not suggesting that you rewrite everything yourself, but you’ll likely come across all the possible and impossible places where something needs to be moved to the new consolidated instructions page.) > > All the best, > René > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

I Maximilian, how are you doing? Please don't let your frustration block you from moving forward. This new pair of eyes from new developers, especially for Windows and Mac is very valuable to us all. Especially in what concerns improving our documentation/website new devevlopers onboarding page and experience. Please, if possible, take notes as to what would the desired changes be and please, kindly ask them in the Devel chat room ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel) or maybe even in the Team Website chat room (https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_website) if there is a way to update the instructions on the Inkscape website. Linux tends to be favoured in our website only to the fact that it is the OS of choice of your core developers. No further distinction of OS is done based in any other factor. It is just matter of what is mainly used by them. That's all. Your contributions would be much appreciated! Thanks, Victor On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:15 PM Maximilian Gaukler < development(a)maxgaukler.de&gt; wrote: