[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17

[Alan]

All right.  So the only solution is to build such an engine ourselves
and to build it into cchost.

Is there any FOSS code which we can examine which may give us a starting
point or ideas?

I'm going to start looking at how cchost is set up.

Alan

Jon Phillips wrote:
> Yeah, its a nonstarter...better starter: pick up a shovel y'all! :)
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:01 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>   
>> Alan wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Jon, what do you think?  This is your dreamchild.
>>>
>>> I also know you have been heavily involved in cchost.
>>>
>>> Are you willing to let go of cchost in order to see OpenClipart get into
>>> the big times?
>>>       
>> Let ccHost go to be replaced with *what*?
>> The proprietary engine from sxc is NOT an option (and I bet it doesn't 
>> meet our needs regarding SVG support). Is there *any* FOSS engine 
>> meeting our requirements?
>> I don't think there is one, I needed such a tool for other projects, 
>> talked with people about the need and nobody had a solution.
>>
>>     
>>> momo wrote:
>>>       
>>>> As John said (and I completely agree with him) the problem is in the fact 
>>>> that CCHOST is concepted as a sharing tool for non-visual content (sounds, 
>>>> texts...) and is not very suited for cliparts. One of the most successful 
>>>> (from my point of view) engines is the (proprietary) one that is used in 
>>>> www.sxc.hu. It has everything a clipart sharing website needs:
>>>>