Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:24:27 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Crowell <gnomecrowell04@lightandmatter.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: inkscape port status Message-ID: <41B3D0EB.2070003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041204230849.A27132@lightandmatter.com> References: <20041204230849.A27132@lightandmatter.com>
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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.
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