From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 03:24:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419CF16A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:24:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.jp.viruscheck.net (smtp1.jp.viruscheck.net [154.33.69.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2F343D2F for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:24:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from scan2.jp.viruscheck.net ([154.33.69.37] helo=mail2.jp.viruscheck.net) by smtp1.jp.viruscheck.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Cb9UV-00073B-00; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:24:47 +0900 Received: from [220.108.149.115] (helo=noc.orchid) by mail2.jp.viruscheck.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1Cb9UU-0003Ty-00; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:24:46 +0900 Received: from [89.60.10.11] (horse.orchid [89.60.10.11]) by noc.orchid (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB63OWGV093077; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:24:32 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from bland@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <41B3D0EB.2070003@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:24:27 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Crowell References: <20041204230849.A27132@lightandmatter.com> In-Reply-To: <20041204230849.A27132@lightandmatter.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: inkscape port status X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:24:49 -0000 Ben Crowell wrote: >Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > > >>I have a good news and bad news. Good news that inkscape was ported to >>gtkmm-2.4 and therefore port will be available for 4.x systems. Bad news >>is that they started to use evil technology called boehm-gc to solve >>memory leaks and ironically it makes opposite thing on FreeBSD. So the >>only show stopper ATM is broken garbage collector and I trying to fix it >>ATM. If there will be big demand I can upload patch set but IMHO >>inkscape in it current shape is not much useful for serious work unless >>you going to restart it every half an hour. >> >> > >Personally I would be very grateful for a version of Inkscape 0.40 that >would run at all. There is a showstopper bug in 0.38 that's really killing >me :-) > > Okay. While you are not finished yet try this http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/inkscape.shar As I said this one is memory leaky. So do not read tutorials much or you run out of swap space quickly ;-) All the best, Alexander.