Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi all,
The big news with Xara is finally coming out today. :-)
Xara has ported their product to Linux and will be Open Sourcing it.
WOW!!!
The key question for us is how we want to relate to Xara when the code is released. Would it make sense for us to share code with Xara? Should we merge, or remain distinct? They'd be open to sharing svn repositories if we'd like (I mentioned we've been looking to upgrade from cvs, and they already use svn)?
Well... if we don't share too much code, at the least, we should snag their rendering engine. ;) Personally, I'd vote that we take our good bits and put it in their program. Theirs is far more feature complete, but could use stuff like our clone tiler (or even the context free version that Mental said he wants to do), grid arrange, etc. That's my .02
-Josh