Re: Mission

Ole Ersoy <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:59:07 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Slightly off topic, but if artists are the target, then not having
>> OSX supported as a primary platform is embarrassing.
> It's so important to the project that we consider it a blocker for the
> 1.0 release. At the hackfest in Pasadena we talked for a long time
> about how to solve this problem, mostly through recruitment and expert
> head hunting. We've all taken time to ask our network of friends and
> other open source projects to find people, ideas, and work arounds for
> getting inkscape on the Mac working.
>
> If you're interested in this project, please join rocket chat's mac
> channel to talk to other people using home brew and other issues to do
> with building the DMG. Your testing would be invaluable.
>
> https://chat.inkscape.org

If Inkscape is transferred to the Electron platform then it instantly runs everywhere - OSX, Browsers, Linux, Windows:

https://medium.com/@ole.ersoy/rewriting-inkscape-in-javascript-7e351738c37c

There are A LOT of Javascript devs.  Could just open a github branch and see what happens.

Ole




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