Is that a built-in or third party extension? If the former, could we add the dependency to inkscape by default, if the latter, could we add the dependency to the extension?

It's a third-party extension. I'm not sure if we could add the dependency to the extension because the extension uses the built-in python in inkscape.

@jtojnar Do you mean adding it to extensions or the inkscape build with extensions?

I'm not sure if we could add the dependency to the extension because the extension uses the built-in python in inkscape.

https://inkscape.org/develop/extensions/ suggests inkscape extensions may be in python, but don't need to be - so perhaps it is possible to use a different python for inkscape than for the extension.

I started trying this out a bit in https://gist.github.com/raboof/bb744b45eb01443cd155956124a6e83d . I'm currently stuck getting it to find GTK3, though. If we can make this work, another advantage of this (aside better isolation) would be that you can add extensions to Inkscape without having to rebuild Inkscape itself.

(I think we should be careful not to delay incremental improvements, like the one proposed in this PR, by searching for 'even better' solutions like "add the dependency to the extension". So if we can't make "add the dependency to the extension" work soon-ish we should consider the approach proposed in this PR again)

I'm currently stuck getting it to find GTK3, though

Updated the gist to use tkinter: https://gist.github.com/raboof/bb744b45eb01443cd155956124a6e83d

This shows this approach can work: with this shell.nix I can use the textext extension in Inkscape. It needs some work, for example to make sure texlive it properly recognized as a runtime dependency, but I think this is the direction to go in.

PyGI is in python3.pkgs.pygobject3. It will require properly set environment to run: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-gnome-hooks-gobject-introspection

This shows this approach can work (...). It needs some work, for example to make sure texlive it properly recognized as a runtime dependency, but I think this is the direction to go in.

Now proposed as #121711

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