[desktop-discuss] Inkscape into Nevada?

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

A couple of opensolaris people have asked when Inkscape is going to hit JDS. For
those who don't know, Inkscape is a vector graphics illustrator, and a regular
tool for most artists in the open source world these days.

However, with it comes some potential issues.

	o It depends on C++ bindings to GTK+.

	  The bindings are in pretty good shape. The maintainer
	  is pretty keen to maintain them, and responsible enough
	  to try and maintain ABI.

	o It doesn't build with Sun Studio

	  This is likely to be the blocker. According to comments,
	  there are some gcc specific bits that we'd have to try
	  and move over. I *think* Brian has done some work getting
	  the compiler folks tuned into this. Any update?

The other dependencies are less of a problem AFAICS. I personally think it would
be pretty awesome to have an SVG editor in the desktop (especially compared to
some of the other things we've been putting into the desktop consolidation). Any
thoughts on this?


Glynn