[Libwpg-devel] LIBWPG fork and scribus

[Fridrich S. <fri...@bl...>]

Hello, 

I am the maintainer and one of the authors of libwpg. I was pointed to
this thread http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8377 today. I was really
surprised that the development of libwpg was declared as stalled and
that you forked it. It is true that I committed the last code into the
HEAD about in December 2008 and that I am actively working on libwpg
rewrite to make the API more friendly for possible bindings from other
languages. Nevertheless, I am not really happy with a fork. It is true
that in FOSS, one can fork whatever one wants, but it would be just
polite at least to write an e-mail to the project developers that are
listed on the SourceForge page to ask about the status.

Libwpg as it is is used actively by inkscape, AbiWord, and GoOo version
of OpenOffice.org. The 0.2.0 version should be released pretty soon (in
2009) along with libwpd 0.9.0 and libwps 0.2.0. Why it is delaying?
Because libwpd 0.8.x and the dependent libraries were so stable that I
am running any attempt to release through a thorough testing including
fuzzing documents, so that we are sure that we don't crash with invalid
input.

Now, what about following: I propose that we simply work together to
discuss and incorporate the changes that are necessary for you in the
upcomming 0.2.0 release.

Cheers

Fridrich Strba
libwpg maintainer