inkscape port status

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Lauri J Järvenpää wrote:

>Hi.
>
>I understood that Inkscape 0.39 was, for some reason, impossible to port to
>FBSD 4.x. Is it now possible to build and run Inkscape 0.40 succesfully on
>FBSD 4.10 systems? And are there plans to update the port?
>  
>
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.

All the best,
Alexander.