Level of Support; general questions

Andy Gryc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.librsvg.devel
Organization Airchitex, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello all,

I'm considering using librsvg for my project that requires a standalone 
SVG rendering engine for an embedded device.  My project has a number of 
different requirements from what librsvg has been currently used for.

* It will probably be using Embedded Linux, but may be using QNX which 
is also POSIX compliant. 
* I would want to try to reduce any dependencies on external libraries 
if at all possible. 
* Possible changes to configure/make to allow cross-compiling.
* I won't be using Gnome, so any changes I would make wouldn't be 
testable (by me) for Gnome.
* My requirements are to support close to a full feature set.  
Specifically, addition of animation, DOM, and scripting support.
* I don't want to use Java, but C/C++.  (This is a match, unlike some of 
the other Open Source alternatives.)

First off--is there any open source project that more closely matches 
what I'm trying to do above?  I suspect not.  However, to me librsvg 
seems as if it has been relatively stagnant for a while.  So if there's 
something newer that's being actively developed on, I'd want to consider 
that seriously instead of invest what could be quite a bit of time in 
bringing this project up to snuff.

Here are a number of things that I see are required, just from the 
project management level.  (Perhaps some of these exist, but they appear 
to be lacking.)
* Documenting what versions of what (SVG Tiny/Basic/Full, 1.0/1.1/1.2) 
are being supported.
* Full feature matrix for what features are supported and which are not 
(and what levels/specific features are not supported).
* Full unit teseting for all supported features.
* Moving todo list into SourceForge for task management.
* Enabling Sourceforge bug list and/or feature wish list.
* Moving project from CVS into SVN?
* More generic support for rasterization layer (not necessarily fixed to 
Gnome pixmaps or Cairo).

And then of course after moving more of the project infrastructure into 
Sourceforge, I would start adding the features I need and/or shoring up 
what's there. Does this sound like work the team would want?  Or should 
I try to find another project and/or fork this one?
--Andy Gryc
[email protected]

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