On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 07:55 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> [2007-03-15 01:21]: > > Doesn't OpenOffice already have an SVG export filter (from its Draw > > component), that is already being enhanced somewhat? That is, in the > > long run, isn't that where the functionality belongs, rather than in a > > separate program within the JDS desktop? If it's in OpenOffice, it > > gets much wider acceptance, feedback, etc, or so I'd think, anyway. > > Inkscape supports substantially more complex drawing operations than > the drawing module in OpenOffice. It's not just the SVG filter that > would need work to make these solutions equivalent.
One big problem with inkscape is that it's written in c++. So first we need all the c++ bindings for the GNOME libs. So far so good, they build and run just fine, but inkscape won't build with sun studio so either we need to compile all the c++ bindings with g++ or we need to fix inkscape to build with sun studio. Most, if not all of the gccisms are now removed from the code, but there are still a lot of things that sun studio is more picky about. Last time I tried to build it, I got stuck here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14712490 It's way beyond my c++ knowledge -- if anyone can help fixing the code (or proving that the compiler is wrong) it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Laca
