Deprecate svg2rlg?

[ralsina]

It's py2-only, not widely used, and inkscape gives much better results (although yes, it's a pain in OSX)

[akrabat]

We have some svg tests that aren't passing (they are marked as to be ignored) too, so we need to work in this area anyway.

There's a few Py3 ports:

• aquavitea - doesn't seem very active
• ScanTrust - uses a separate PyPI
• DeepLook's svglib - maybe work looking at?

[ralsina]

Also, for testing purposes, I am thinking it may be useful to mock inkscape so we don't depend on it being a specific version. Just creating a "fake" inkscape that always returns the same PDF :-)

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[lornajane]

Would we use this every time? I think it's quite helpful that we all have different versions of inkscape and could run the tests in different environments as needed. If I upgrade inkscape and that causes a problem, I'd like to know that there's a problem when I run the tests, not when my PDF won't build correctly.

[ralsina]

@akrabat svglib looks promising! Will try to do a PR for it.

[akrabat]

If I upgrade inkscape and that causes a problem, I'd like to know that there's a problem when I run the tests, not when my PDF won't build correctly.

We definitely need it work this way.

[ralsina]

My main concern is that I have never, ever, been able to make inkscape work in my mac. That means I can never successfully run the test suite which adds a lot of friction.

[akrabat]

I'm happy to have a switch that can be enabled for locally testing with a mocked Inkscape output.

I can't remember how I installed Inkscape on my Mac mind you.