On Tue, 25 May 2004, Fredrik Arnerup wrote:
Nathan Hurst <Nathan.Hurst@...38...> writes:
Passepartout-dev wrote:
Collaboration with Inkscape has been suggested before and it certainly makes a lot of sense, though I don't think merging the programs is a good idea.
Would you like to share your reasons why not?
Well, for one thing it would mean a lot of work. There are only two of us. We'd have to get to know the Inkscape code and do a feasability study first.
Secondly, I am a bit worried we'd be making a Frankenstein's app. A lot of compromises would have to be made. As Bulia Byak pointed out, as long as Inkscape uses SVG as its document format, it would be a bad idea to add things that are not supported by SVG.
Here are my thoughts on this. I've been on a few projects where other projects join up - maybe about a dozen instances. It's generally quite amicable and seems to be in everyone's best interests. But in each case the second group ended up just kind of dying out, without any code or ideas getting transferred across. I'm not sure if those issues were time issues, cultural incompatibility, technical problems, or just "too many cooks in the kitchen", but in any case, evidence suggests it's much trickier to make work than you'd think.
So... I definitely love the idea of combining forces, but realistically I don't think it'd be in Passepartout's interests to wholesale join Inkscape. I am much more in favor of the "sister projects" approach like we have with Scribus, where we just agree to help each other out and look for ways to enhance interoperability, but remain distinct projects with distinct priorities and goals.
Bryce