i have tried macports and homebrew and prefer not to use either. i am currently using valerio's current build 0.92.3, or so this is what the gitlab project states. i find this build to be quicker to load and meets my needs. my comment was actually directed at the possibility of the download link referencing this build. until this build can be incorporated into the current source code to where xquartz is no longer needed for the mac and no longer needed period, then a favorable solution for mac users to the problem would be to establish a symbiotic relationship with valerio and request the link to his 0.92.3 build on gitlab be established on the inkscape web site with a brief explanation of this "fork" of the project for mac users.

i am not a programmer. i would help if i had any programming skills. this situation of a lack of mac programmers is a frustration to mac users as well as the developers. even though mac is a unix based os, it is not linux, and with all of the new security measures incorporated into mojave, it appears that apple is trying to stifle open source programs from being used on apple products.

inkscape has a current build for mac that works and is under development. would it not be proper for us to embrace what we have? the developers have been talking about not using quartz/xquartz for as long as i have been using inkscape. the model exists, why not move in that direction?

best,

dwain alford