From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Pogonyshev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SVG support in Emacs: what happened? Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:10:34 +0200 Message-ID: <200701200210.34542.pogonyshev@gmx.net> References: <1169200808.6510.7.camel@galahad> <1169250499.5404.21.camel@galahad> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169251456 5125 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2007 00:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis , rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 20 01:04:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H83iK-0007OO-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:04:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H83iK-0001rG-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H83i9-0001qY-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H83i7-0001pF-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H83i7-0001p5-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:03:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H83i6-0005bG-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2007 00:03:53 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [80.94.234.70]) [80.94.234.70] by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 20 Jan 2007 01:03:53 +0100 X-Authenticated: #16844820 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 In-Reply-To: <1169250499.5404.21.camel@galahad> Content-Disposition: inline X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65313 Archived-At: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > [...] > > Many apologies to Paul if he likewise assumed I was taking it upon > myself to criticize his code. No offence taken. > > 2. If it is well written, we could add it (after the release), if we > > get legal papers from the authors. > > I asked if there was "some fundamental roadblock against patching > current Emacs CVS with something like this code". Paul just said he sees > no obstacle. Back in 2004, Paul said: "I may be willing to have a try > [at creating a patch], provided that 'librsvg' usage is acceptable." As > far as I can tell from your comments in the original thread, librsvg > usage /is/ acceptable. > > If that's so, the remaining questions are: > > 1. What does the code need to make it "portable"? Probably input of someone on Windows. I'm sure it won't compile there simply because I made no effort for this. > 2. What makes it "ugly", other than non-portability? It doesn't support scaling (which is natural for SVG), as far as I remember it doesn't support transparency but uses some ad-hoc background color. And likely more problems. > 3. Is Paul (or anyone else) (in 2007) "willing to have a try" at turning > it from a "first shot" into a final patch? Not as I know. I'm not going to work on it until Emacs trunk is "unfrozen". It might as well take another year or two, so it is meaningless for me (as not a core Emacs developer) to spend time on it. Feel free to take it. I assigned copyright to FSF on Emacs changes, so this patch can be assumed as copyrighted by FSF. Paul