Inkscape 0.92.0 now available on MacPorts

[David Evans]

On 1/7/17 3:20 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Doing “sudo port deactivate active” would deactivate ALL my active ports, would it not? And given that I have scores
> active, it would be brutal to reactivate all of them,

Hence the previously mentioned criticism but it works.

> 
> I had originally installed inkscape with +quartz, which didn’t work. Then after uninstalling that I installed inkscape
> +x11, which also didn’t work!

Then you have some mixed combination of +x11 and +quartz ports installed that may not be compatible with each other.

So best to decide if you really want to run +quartz or +x11 as an arbitrary mixture can be problematic (as you have
observed).
> 
> I don’t understand syntax & semantics of:
> 
>    sudo port -f deactivate rdepof:inkscape and active
> 
> (I don’t find any mention of “rdepof” at guide.macports.org <http://guide.macports.org>, and I need to be sure that the
> “and active” there really applies only to whatever it is that would match "rdepof:inkscape”.
> 
> I note the output from 
> 
>             sudo port installed | grep quartz
> 
> is:
> 
>   cairo @1.14.8_0+quartz+x11 (active)
>   pango @1.40.3_1+quartz+x11 (active)
>   tk @8.6.6_0+quartz (active)
> 
> And I have a huge number of ports that depend on cairo.
> 
> So still question is what to do.

Ok, I'm assuming you want to switch to +quartz. Let's take one step at a time.

First, cairo and pango are not an issue as they support both +x11 and +quartz without rebuilding.  They're ok.

>From your output, I assume that gtk2 is still built +x11.  That would explain why XQuartz is starting. What does

port installed gtk2

report?

If it's still gtk2 +x11, install gtk2 +quartz instead.  Test by running gtk-demo (provided by gtk2) and observe that it
runs (sucessfully) without XQuartz starting.

While you do this, I'll make a list of other inkscape dependencies from my (working) installation that need to be
rebuilt with +quartz.

Dave


> 
>> On Jan 7, 2017, at 4:48 PM, David Evans <devans at macports.org <mailto:devans at macports.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/7/17 10:31 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>>> I have latest (2..7.11) XQuartz installed under macOS Sierra (10.12.2). I installed inkscape+quartz and insckape-app.
>>> When I either run inkscape from Terminal command line or from inkscape.app created by the latter, I see the XQiartz icon
>>> repeatedly appear and bounce in my Dock and then disappear. But I never see an Inkscape window.
>>>
>>> How to fix?
>>
>> If the XQuartz server is being activated, that indicates that your program is issuing X11 protocol requests.  Thus, it
>> appears that you have not been successful in rebuilding all the necessary dependencies with +quartz instead of +x11.
>>
>> Although I have been criticized for suggesting such a brute force approach, the most fool proof way I know of doing
>> this this transition successfully is the following:
>>
>> sudo port deactivate active
>> sudo port install inkscape +quartz
>>
>> or perhaps less clumsily
>>
>> sudo port -f deactivate rdepof:inkscape and active
>> sudo port install inkscape +quartz
>>
>> This is how I switch from one to the other for testing.
>>
>> Note that a potential problem in trying to switch from +x11 to +quartz on a port by port basis is that you may now be
>> mixing installed ports that require +x11 and others that require +quartz that may have common dependencies that can only
>> be installed one way or the other.
>>
>> Depending on what ports you often use, you may have to decide on whether you want a +quartz only installation or an +x11
>> one.
>>
>> Dave
>>
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