From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 05:08:43 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 D177116A4CE for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 05:08:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lightandmatter.com (lightandmatter.com [64.246.48.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7092943D2D for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 05:08:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bcrowell@lightandmatter.com) Received: (from bcrowell@localhost) by lightandmatter.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id iB558nS27137 for gnome@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:08:49 -0600 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:08:49 -0600 From: Ben Crowell To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20041204230849.A27132@lightandmatter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 05:08:44 -0000 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 :-)