inkscape crashes

[Jonathan Stickel]

Thanks for the suggestions.  Those links you gave were for older 
versions with different problems.  However, it did give me an idea for 
something else to try.  The pre-packaged app version has its own bundled 
python modules with broken lxml.  To instead use Macports installed 
python, I opened up:

[path to]/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape

which is a shell script, and commented out these lines (near the top):

# Setup PYTHONPATH to use python modules shipped with Inkscape
#ARCH=`arch`
#PYTHON_VERS=`python -V 2>&1 | cut -c 8-10`
#export PYTHONPATH="$TOP/python/site-packages/$ARCH/$PYTHON_VERS"

Now my locally installed textext extension works just fine!

Jonathan


On 11/12/10 08:00 , macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:12:42 -0500
> From: Philip Neukom
> To:macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: Re: inkscape crashes
>
> Jonathan, perhaps this can give you some ideas of what to try in the
> interim until the port is fixed:
 >
<snip>
>
> On 11.11.2010 10:00,macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org  wrote:
>> >  Yes, I did find the downloadable mac "app" version works OK.  However,
>> >  the "textext" extension (and probably other extensions) do not work with
>> >  this version since it doesn't know about macports installed libraries
>> >  (libxml2 for the case of textext).  It will be nice to have inkscape
>> >  working via Macports again after the various bugs are fixed.
>> >
>> >  Jonathan