inkscape port status

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Ben Crowell wrote:

>Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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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.