[Skencil-users] Join forces for skencil1/sK1?

[Igor Novikov]

Hi Bernhard,

We have another useful improvement. We refactored svgloader.py to remove
pyXML package dependency. As you known, pyXML is no longer maintained and
last release was in 2004. Therefore pyXML has a bug in build script and
produces corrupted package installation.

To avoid these problems we substituted pyXML by built-in Python SAX parser.
The source code you can find on following link:

http://sk1.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sk1/trunk/sK1/src/app/plugins/Filters/svgloader.py?view=log

In current state (revision 207) refactored svgloader.py is fully compatible
with Skencil 0.6.x. Later compatibility will be broken due to text engine
UTF8 migration.

Sincerely,

Igor Novikov
sK1 Team
http://sk1.sf.net


On 5/17/07, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:10, Igor Novikov wrote:
> > sK1 project was presented on Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montreal and
> it
> > seems the presentation was sucsessful.
>
> wonderful!
>
> > Among other new features we demonstrated a "brilliant" feature -
> universal
> > CDR importer for CorelDRAW files from 7 version up to X3 version. This
> > importer is backward compartible with Skencil v.0.6.x and it's code can
> be
> > found in our SVN on SF.net. CDR format reverse engineerig is a separate
> sK1
> > subproject (additional info can be found on our web site).
>
> Good to know!
> http://sk1.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sk1
>
> > Comparsion tests for complex drawing show that sK1 engine (based on
> Skencil
> > engine but improved by Cairo renderer) is faster than Inkscape or
> Scribus
> > engines and requires smaller memory amount (on the same drawing: sK1 -
> 60
> > Mb, Inkscape - 260 Mb, Scribus - 480 Mb)
> >
> > Also it was declared that unlike Sodipodi/Inkscape pair, sK1 team and
> > Skencil team plan joining forces for 1.0 version. Therefore we are ready
> to
> > discuss this issue.
>
> I had already put on some of the questions.
> What name to use, and what strategy to pursue regarding
> the now available three esisting ends skencil 0.6, sk1, skencil 0.7.
> Then we need to find the best infrastructure for it.
>
> From Bernhard H. I've heard that we wanted to peek a look at your code.
>
> > P.S. Build scripts in our SVN still not ready and I need a few days to
> fix
> > its.
>
> Let us know, when they are fixe. :)
> Bernhard
>
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