Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:14 AM Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:58 PM timothy b via dia-list > wrote: > >> The question isn’t so much as to what utilities that Día uses, nor what >> platform is managing the code. >> >> The discussion should be about is there anyone that wa

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:58 PM timothy b via dia-list wrote: > The question isn’t so much as to what utilities that Día uses, nor what > platform is managing the code. > > The discussion should be about is there anyone that wants to maintain Dia > for Windows, and who is prepared to maintain Día

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread timothy b via dia-list
The question isn’t so much as to what utilities that Día uses, nor what platform is managing the code. The discussion should be about is there anyone that wants to maintain Dia for Windows, and who is prepared to maintain Día for Linux. Until those to questions are answered, any other discussio

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:20 PM Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM Thomas HARDING > wrote: > >> Hi, all ! >> >> So, >> >> Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : >> > > >> So, I think that's a good start point : why Dia, an unmaintained >> software,

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM Thomas HARDING wrote: > Hi, all ! > > So, > > Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : > > So, I think that's a good start point : why Dia, an unmaintained > software, has *no* competitor /on its segment/ ? > > DIA is very unique I give you tha

Re: Hello Everyone

2018-12-04 Thread Thomas HARDING
Hi! Le 04/12/2018 à 23:24, Alexander Brown a écrit : Hello! I've been interested in seeing Dia move forward for sometime now and I'm glad others are as well I don't want to step on anyone's toes but as the current maintainers are unaccounted for I'm volunteering as acting-maintainer (I have com

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Thomas HARDING
Hi, all ! So, Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : I don't think we need to argue.  Alejandro's comment however raises an important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? I think there will always be a need for an offline, open source, portable lightweight diagram SW, s

Hello Everyone

2018-12-04 Thread Alexander Brown
Hello! I've been interested in seeing Dia move forward for sometime now and I'm glad others are as well I don't want to step on anyone's toes but as the current maintainers are unaccounted for I'm volunteering as acting-maintainer (I have commit access). I've already reached out to Thomas directl

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list! > The reason why I have used Dia in the past is that I could not find any > other solution for the following requirements: > - be fully offline (draw.io & co fail this - plus I'm not trusting them with > any work-sensitive material!) > - is free, open sou

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Rob Wortham via dia-list
Just to support the point made below about Dia as a component of a wider workflow. The ability to extract the definition data from a diagram easily was the major reason I chose to use Dia. The python interface is simple and exposes all the content in a clear object oriented way. I looked at Visi

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:22 AM Eduard Nicodei via dia-list < dia-list@gnome.org> wrote: > I don't think we need to argue. Alejandro's comment however raises an > important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? > > I think actually Dia can live alongside online diagram editors such as > draw.io and

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Eduard Nicodei via dia-list
I don't think we need to argue. Alejandro's comment however raises an important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? I think actually Dia can live alongside online diagram editors such as draw.io and formats such as XML/SVG have nothing to do with it. The reason why I have used Dia in the past