On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 14:31 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:04 PM Zander Brown <zbr...@gnome.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 12:59 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > What I was thinking is that we could channel some funds to a > > > University and have them work on it. My native country > > > (Venezuela) is in pretty bad shape but top-notch Universities are > > > still operating despite the crisis. This would be a win-win IMHO. > > > > Worth investigating > > > > I reached out to a professor I know in one University to see what the > real possibilities are. > > > > > Not sure directly competing with draw.io would work especially well > > > > > > No, but it is the closest competitor AFAICT. > > [...] > > > Personally I'd like to see Dia remain a 'native' application (which > > seems to be the general view of others on the list as well) and > > plugable interfaces generally get very messy very fast (esp when we > > do a lot of custom rendering) so I'd rather Dia remains true to > > it's roots as a Gtk application > > > > > > That's fine. My idea was just to stir things up a little and see what > would come out of this discussion.
No harm in discussion! > I think the main objective is saving DIA from being shunt out of the > Linux distros and see how to maintain the Windows and Mac binaries. > > BTW, IIRC Steffen's widow received some revenue from the > http://dia-installer.de/ Website so I think that even if Gnome takes > over the maintenance of the Windows and Mac binaries somehow, perhaps > they could still be distributed through http://dia-installer.de/ in > coordination with her, in respect to Steffen all the years of effort > that he put into maintaining these binaries all by himself. Sounds like a nice thing to do, not sure what GNOME can offer in terms of Windows/macOS packaging but I'm up for supporting http://dia-installer.de/ > Best, > Alex > -- Zander Brown <zbr...@gnome.org> GNOME
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