RE: Sodipodi = dead?

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:21, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> I have shelved sodipodi for now due to the lack of time and ideas.
> It may be resurrected, still - if you or anybody here thinks they can go on
> maintaining it, tell me. I can add you the admins of the project.

I'd be interested in doing that.

> Some directions:
> Porting to C++ is OK

That one hadn't occurred to me--I seem to remember hearing the Inkscape
fork went in that direction, but I don't know why.

I like C++ well enough; but I don't consider it a silver bullet, so I've
got no particular urge to graft it onto an existing, functioning
codebase.

> libnr and cousins should remain totally free (not LGPL)

I can respect that.  I mean, since you've already put them in the public
domain, there's no way to stop someone from releasing a derivative
version under whatever license they like; but I can promise not to do
that myself.

> Moving internals
> away from SVG/DOM is OK

Personally, I don't have a problem (yet ;-) with having DOM
internals--especially since I want a scripting interface.  I started
with Python, but it'd be nice to expose a language-neutral interface
(like the GIMP has), and the DOM could offer a pretty clean way to do
that.

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