Hi,

I see new developer builds allmost daily for Win, but the latest for OS X is from sep 17.
If i could i would compile/build new versions myself... but i'm so lost evn trying to read the tutorial om compiling and just fails.
More of my friends and even at work we switch more over to Mac these days and it would be great to try out the new develop versions.

Really lloking forward to 0.47

The Win32 builds are compiled and hosted by a volunteer at the volunteers expense--sorry I can't remember who it is to give the appropriate credit. Any OS X user can do the same.

I point this out because Inkscape doesn't seem to have attracted equally committed and charitable OS X users--perhaps because OS X has a much smaller user-base. It's not uncommon for OS X users to come to this forum and complain that they can't get answers, not realizing that they're not getting answers because their not prepared to volunteer their time to help each other.

This isn't meant to be a dig at yourself, but it would be great if someone from the OS X world stepped up and volunteered time and effort to champion Inkscape on OS X.

Thanks,

To bad i'm not even remotely talented in the programming area..
Hopefully more skilled people will get involved in the future.

This might be of interest for you:

http://www.nabble.com/New-Mac-Build(s)-td21324335.html#a21357942

Quote: "I uploaded the most recent package I made (probably far from perfect
but I need some testers) to
http://rapidshare.com/files/180771457/Inkscape_2_.dmg
Sorry for rapidshare, I have some personal webspace too, but
mailinglist archives have such a long memory ...
So if any mac users are readings this, please test this. (btw,
anything less than leopard is even less tested, I'm not sure about
ppc, but probably won't work either) "

I'm really looking forward for 0.47

I have no special abilities or experience compiling such big programs (only some very very little with the manual of course)... or some on other OS with the packet manager. Say so, no experience on osx with compiling at all

what I'm asking now, first, what do I need to know when I'm compiling on Mac OS X?
the second,
does it anyhow interfere my system, or do I get the nice clean .app-Build? That's what I'm interested the most. I would regret if my system gets full of garbage because I'm too stupid.

I do have more or less large problems with the latest build (at least it does work!), but 0.47 is so freakin cool what I've seen, I just can't wait and want to check out if newer versions are probably getting better

Thank you for any response.

You can find instructions for compiling under OS X heere - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX

If you need more information you'll probably get a better response from the developers mailing list.