On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:45:02AM +0200, Eric Bednarz wrote:
Hi,
I wonder what the current status of a native Inkscape version for OS X (ever since the first announced good news) is (the wiki doesn't really help [me, at least]).
To cut it short:
- I love Inkscape
- OS X is my primary development platform these days (I do have flavours of Windows and GNU/Linux available for testing and special tasks, I'd like to cut that down to testing)
- I want my Intuos tablet to work properly with the calligraphy tool (did I mention that I love Inkscape?)
- I'd rather pump € worth of a CS3 Illustrator (missed opportunity, as far as I'm concerned ;-) license into a worhtwhile project, if that helps (I don't drink beer anyway [0] :-)
Hi Eric,
Perhaps the best place to start would be to just get that OSX wiki page up to date. If it's lacking info you need, then that's probably going to be a stumbling block for the next guy that comes along.
I would suggest going through the inkscape-devel mailing list archives for discussion of the OSX port. I seem to recall some detailed discussions back around the time of our last release. You can also see who is actively involved in it and interview them for more info.
[0] Seriously, I encourage everyone thinking about the issue if you can afford it at all -- personally, I'm not exactly getting rich but wealthy enough to start thinking about it. I've gotten more out of free software (or whatever your label is) than I could ever pay back, which is not say that I shouldn't pay back at all, anywhere. Now that I could afford Adobe products, I'd rather invest into freedom (and to me, there are no 'leechers', 'undecided professionals' maybe, which is unconditionally fine :).
Ironically, it's hard to translate $$ into bug fixes and new code for open source projects, however one time-proven method is to send hardware. I would bet that sending an Intuos to one of the developers would help motivate them to troubleshoot it.
Bryce