[openbeos] Donating libbsvg to Haiku

Hi Everyone

I have a simple question: What do you think about libbsvg in the Haiku 
repository?

The thing is that SVG support is something that could be very useful 
for the Haiku platform and that having it maintained and supported 
inside Haiku would make sense (IMHO). Having it as a third party 
library makes it not that easy to use and will probably not be adopted 
by many applications (which is a sad thing in my opinion). I really 
tried hard to create the library and it's main interface (the BSVGView) 
along the lines of the standard BeOS classes. This makes it fit Haiku 
quite well.

Also I will probably not find the time to maintain it myself and I 
really don't want to just put it up to some sf or berlios account and 
then just leave it there unupdated.

I did test libbsvg with the viewer on Haiku today and it seems to work 
quite well. The clip to picture thing is not yet implemented which 
breaks gradient drawing, but other than that the parsing and rendering 
structure works (surprisingly well).

So what do you think?

Regards
Michael

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