On 9/27/05, Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing@...400...> wrote:
Note that "leave the conversion to external programs" does not mean the user must switch to a terminal and run an application.
Not a big surprise to me ;)
native code. So, there is no reason to add import/export code to the main tree (though aggregating the required programs *next to* the tree in the distribution will simplify the dependency issues.
Aggregation?
I agree if you are talking about the proposed use of scribus for I/E,
Plus Dia, plus Sketch/Skencil, plus pstoedit, plus etc.
but I also think that using it in the short term is better than nothing.
Sure
Thus creation of previously announced Üver-Convertor (I'm lost for words to express my disagreement with this nietschianish name, actually) is quite a good solution.
Heh. You're not the first. It started as a working title and sort of stuck, but right now it seems to be about 50/50 for and against the name (I wonder why that is?)
Why? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch
Does it help to know that this is only the name of the project and that the programs themselves have much more mundane names like svg2crs?
I know that :)
Alexandre