...was XaraLX ported to use Cairo ?

**stuseven** · 25 April 2007, 10:21 PM

+ I think Ive got the name right... and this was the last major
report on this forum I saw, pertaining to continued development
of XaraLX... one poster had reported having ported Xaralx to use
the Cairo library, and this was being called "a new branch"... but...
did this actually happen, or was this it just a suggestion to get
xaralx development moving again ? (without complaints from the
opensource community about a "non-free" graphics library being
used ?).

Its been so quiet in here, I was just wondering if everyone
might have moved to the new "Xara-Cairo-LX" forum or something ? :-)

**Soquili** · 25 April 2007, 11:15 PM

Hello Stu,

There isn't much activity here but there isn't another forum for LX using Cairo either. The following link is the most recent reply by Charles Moir on the dev archive page: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/maillists/.../msg00013.html

**Shaman** · 26 April 2007, 02:04 AM

It's quiet, but maybe not too quiet. My impression from the article (link) I posted about two months back was that it was agreed by Charles Moir and Carl Worth, principal developer of Cairo, that a parallel branch of Xara LX could be created with Cairo instead of CDraw. I just followed the link from the article to Carl Worth's Git repository and nothing since February 20th, the time of the original post, unless I'm missing something in what I'm seeing here (beyond the use of the words "lame attempt"): http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=use...ralx;a=summary
Now this is apparently only the public Git repository for Carl Worth and Worth said he wouldn't have any time to work on this himself. Also Charles Moir offered to host the code on Xara's servers, don't know if that happened.
The one of the conclusions in the article was that Xara was concerned about possible ports of any developed code to Windows. Whether that's becoming an overriding concern to Magix and Xara is another question.
Have not noticed anything else posted on-line on this in the last two months. Lack of developer interest may still be a factor.
I am, however holding my breath and would really like to see more work on this. Adobe can keep it's CS's, bigger more expensive, clunky interfaces and slower. I am still enjoying this a lot!
Anyone hearing newer news?
Scott

**Soquili** · 26 April 2007, 02:12 AM

Scott the link I posted was to Charles' message dated April 9th.

**remi** · 26 April 2007, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Shaman

I just followed the link from the article to Carl Worth's Git repository and nothing since February 20th, the time of the original post, unless I'm missing something in what I'm seeing here (beyond the use of the words "lame attempt")

see also this thread

Remi

**Shaman** · 26 April 2007, 05:33 PM

Thank you Bill and Remi:
Noticed both of those, just wondering if there was news from any other quarters.
Scott

**Soquili** · 26 April 2007, 05:39 PM

No news I'm aware of. It appears very little discussion about XaraLX exists outside the Dev Archive and this forum.

**stuseven** · 26 April 2007, 08:21 PM

+ Hi Soquili ! As usual, your cutting edge reply is much
appreciated... I hadnt even heard about a proposed
XaraLX/Inkscape merger.

Originally Posted by Soquili

Hello Stu,

There isn't much activity here but there isn't another forum for LX using Cairo either. The following link is the most recent reply by Charles Moir on the dev archive page: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/maillists/.../msg00013.html