[Clipart] Re: svg shell extension

[Carl Worth]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:12:00 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Caleb Moore has just completed (some polish remaining) a re-work of
> librsvg in CVS allowing the use of different backends than libart. The
> main reason for this was to be able to add a Cairo backend. 

Hey, that's fantastic!

> What would be great at this point would be if you would be interested in
> dropping xsvg and instead help out with librsvg, especially the Cairo
> backend part. 

I would be more than happy to just drop libsvg and libsvg-cairo on the
floor in favor of a librsvg that knows how to draw to cairo.

> Can't help but feel it would be an utter waste of time if you spent time
> on xsvg repeating the work Dom and Caleb have been doing on improving
> spec coverage

Absolutely. I don't want to maintain an SVG parser. This is great news
all around.

-Carl
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