hope you dont mind me bringing this back onlist
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Daniel Stiefelmaier wrote:
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:29:15 +0200 From: Daniel Stiefelmaier <webmaster@...985...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] update of roadmap
Animation is a pretty Large goal.
agreed :)
Full SVG Tiny support is a smaller goal, and looking back at implementing the SVG specifications seems like a good way to refocus Inkscape on its core goals.
also agreed.
I hope to make time to read the SVG Tiny specification soon but I have a feeling it is also a fairly large task too because it includes some basic animation. It also has the advantage of effectively targeting a very specific commercial market allowing inkscap to potentially dominate a particular niche (with total world domination to follow, mwuhahahah!).
maybe import filters could also be a goal.
Thing about import export filters is that they could be done in parallel to other work and are a relatively good way to draw in external developers.
File filters a discrete seperable part and are exactly the kind of feature which can be postponed indefinately. The trick is to have a stable enough API to allow external developers to come in and work on filters without needing to worry about keeping up with other other changes in the codebase.
While I'm talking about file formats I may as well suggest how great it would to make sure that when gradient support is implemented in a file format we should have a generic way to exploit that and make those gradient loaders directly available to the gradient tools without needing to write additional code. (Please remind me to file an RFE for this infrastructure change if I haven't done it within a few day.)
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/