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I am using the latest Inkscape version in a Mac (PPC) and I get the following error message:
"The inkex.py module requires PyXML. Please download the latest version from http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/."
Is this something that we have to compile, or we just need to install it? I got to check it out... I didn't know Inkscape needed this, and probably a lot of guys out there feel the same about this... Maybe Inkscape should include all these dependencies, whenever it does not rely on the standard operating system configuration... Or, at least, there should be some advide in the website to download them together with the Inkscape binaries.
On 2007-May-29 , at 18:55 , Richard Querin wrote:
I agree that it's not clear up from the website. But I did find some instruction on the wiki here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ CompilingMacOsX#Enabling_python_effects
I'm running it on XP and on Linux and I didn't have a problem, but I know of others who have. It should be made more clear.
You don't have to compile them and if you downloaded the latest stable version of Inkscape for PPC, it has those python packages included in it (in the dmg you have the Inkscape application that you need to drag to Applications and two other folders that you need to drag to the corresponding python folder. All this should be made quite self-explanatory by the background image). Once the python packages are installed, you can safely update Inkscape to a development build if you wish and the python packages will stay there and work. It would be better to include those packages into the Inskcape application itself but then we'll need to modify Python search path to point it to the correct place. This is probably doable and would be a welcomed improvement. Inkscape being an open source project, it only grows features when people who want something actually come in a do it. This feature does not involve deep coding into Inskcape sources so is probably doable by anybody who is willing to take the time to do it. Feel free to try to produce a patch ;)
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