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Date:      Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:08:49 -0600
From:      Ben Crowell <gnomecrowell04@lightandmatter.com>
To:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: inkscape port status
Message-ID:  <20041204230849.A27132@lightandmatter.com>

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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 :-)





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