Hi, Well, there have been many OSS projects which have recovered from a 'dead' codebase, such as cinerella. Personally I believe that the best way to go forward would be to fork the current codebase to a really open repository such as sourceforge.net. Then there may be a chance that other developers will pick up. (I might as well, even though I am currently hard pressed with other projects). Since the code has been released as GPL this should be no problem legally, I believe. Xara may have different views on this, by the way. The first cut at this has been provided by Carl Worth (maintainer of Cairo) and you could start by checking this code out and committing it to sourceforge. See the maillist http://www.xaraxtreme.org/maillists/archive/dev/dev_022007/msg00098.html for details. He has also suggested that he would be very willing to help, so you might check if he's still interested. For documentation purposes, you can always refer to the xaraxtreme.org site, which has pretty good documentation on anything apart from cdraw. Regards, Erik-Berndt ________________________________ Van: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx namens xavier.lemoine Verzonden: ma 28-4-2008 15:59 Aan: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Onderwerp: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Hackontest: the right time for the Cairo backend? Agree with you Sandro, For sure, XaraLx is not "complete", but what a tool ! I use it often, and it work, even if that's not the exact copy of the Windows version (not all of the functions). If i was good enough to help for this project, i enjoy to help. Unfortunatly, i'm not good enough for this. Regards, Xavier - France Sandro Sigala a écrit : >> Forget about Xara. Xara is dead, dead, dead. > > Wow, what a pessimistic point of view. XaraLX is a very nice piece of > software, shame that the OSS developers didn't join (yet) the > development. > > I don't understand where are you planning to go with your > non-constructive > approach. > > Regards, > Sandro > -- *************************************** Xavier Lemoine - XLFormation Le Mas L'Hugues 01240 DOMPIERRE SUR VEYLE Ligne 1 : 04.74.30.33.56 Ligne 2 : 09.50.67.33.61 (Coût d'une communication locale depuis un poste fixe) Fax : 09.55.67.33.61 Mobile : 06.25.58.02.97 xavier.lemoine@xxxxxxx htt://www.xlformation.com http://www.xlformation.sup.fr <http://www.xlformation.sup.fr/> Formations - Conseils - Audits - Assistance - Maintenance tous systèmes - Créations numériques - Développements - Aide à la décision - Sites internet & E-Commerce- Migration OpenSource & Systèmes Linux **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Disclaimer: This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Sogeti Nederland B.V. or its Group members. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.
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