> It's a bit like writing a new backend, except you have all this existing > code to worry about as well. Unless you start from scratch (which may > not be such a bad idea: you get to modernise it all, and it isn't _really_ > from scratch, you can peek at the old code and copy stuff from it).
I disagree, it's nowhere near the difficulty of writing a new back-end, it's only a conversion from one representation to another and one could say that only "tactical" decisions are to be made, as opposed to more "strategical" decisions for a new back-end. And IMO starting from scratch is a bad idea. > But writing a backend is too much for a GSoC, even a small one. Definitely, and doing a CC0 conversion is probably an upper bound. -- Eric Botcazou
