Re: Gnumeric, vectorial drawings (and charts)

[Jean Brefort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le jeudi 11 août 2011 à 09:39 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> 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 ?

EMF support is the priority since it seems that we have no usable
alternative. Other format might follow later or not.

Jean