[Xc3sprog-users] Open question: support for other FPGA families?

[Adrien Prost-B. <adr...@la...>]

Hi,

I have a small Actel Igloo Nano FPGA board and I thought it would be
nice if it could be programmed with xc3sprogs.
http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/design-resources/dev
-kits/igloo/igloo-nano-starter-kit

I can see that xc3sprogs is able to program Xilinx devices, but not
only, as some AVR microcontrollers can also be programmed.
So I wondered whether the extensibility of xc3sprogs was enough to
consider porting it to other FPGA families ?

I also know people that would love any kind of support for Altera DE1
board. I can get one of these boards.
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/DE1/

1) Is xc3sprogs extensibility high enough to support other FPGA
families?
2) What amount of work would it require to add this support?
3) Is such work reasonably accessible to newcomers? 
4) Are there other people that would like support for Actel or Altera
boards, or other board families?

Best regards,
Adrien