Re: Gnumeric, vectorial drawings (and charts)

[Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel gnome org>]

Hi,

Le mercredi 10 août 2011 à 21:35 +0200, Jean Brefort a écrit :
> > > The second would avoid to depend on librsvg, but I don't know if
> > > Emmanuel will actively support it in the future, even in the near
> > > future. Actually we might also consider importing the mathml code in
> > > goffice.
> >
> > Why would you want to do that ?
>
> Just a possibility if lasem went unmaintained, which might happen as it
> is a one man project.

Sure it can happen. But by moving the mathml code in goffice, you will
take over the maintainership. Why no keep it in a standalone source
package ?

> > I think you highly underestimate  the difficulty of SVG rendering, shown
> > by the fact that all the modern web browsers fail to have a decent
> > coverage of the SVG 1.1 specification.
>
> I don't underestimate anything. I know it would be a long term issue.

What I don't get is you have two existing projects, one of them having a
pretty good coverage of the SVG specification (librsvg) and a large user
base, and you would start a new project from scratch. What for ?

        Emmanuel.