SVG file format support in Builders

[bdbaddog]

This issue was originally created at: 2009-03-14 12:22:10. This issue was reported by: dktrkranz.

dktrkranz said at 2009-03-14 12:22:10

In Debian, one of our developers reported bug #508688 to request addidtion of SVG image file support to some Builders in order to directly output its content to the desired format. See https://bugs.debian.org/508688 for additional details.

gregnoel said at 2009-03-19 03:12:28

Bug party triage. Luca, we'd like to do this, but we don't have anyone with any knowledge about this toolchain, so we'd be shooting in the dark at best. We already try to support Java and SWIG this way and all we seem to do is stagger from one broken configuration to another, and take up a lot of time while we're doing it.

This issue is going to languish unless you have some way of providing us with domain-specific expertise. We don't need someone to write the code, but we need someone who can work with us to provide a better specification, who can run the test cases, generally make sure that everything is working, and keep running the regression tests into the future. Can you find someone like that?

garyo said at 2012-09-01 10:04:01

de-assigning all tickets assigned to Greg Noel (no longer working on SCons)

j_ff said at 2016-01-31 12:42:53

Please can give someone a statement about this bug?

Many thanks!

Jörg Frings-Fürst Maintainer of scons at Debian

bdbaddog said at 2016-01-31 13:51:21

No updates. No work done on this bug.

Patches are welcome.

More information about this issue is at https://bugs.debian.org/508688.

[kprussing]

For anyone who stumbles across this, check out scons-inkscape, for a (most likely outdated) first hack at using Inkscape for SVG conversion.

[mwichmann]

Hey - thanks! It doesn't even look particularly outdated to me at a glance :-)

[kprussing]

Oh my real worry is the hand searched/hard coded paths to the executables I used back the day to "make something work" (I was supposed to be writing and not fiddling with the tools I used to build my manuscript ;-)). I also don't know if the CLI flags changed or not (I think they did somewhere along the line)

[bdbaddog]

@kprussing - would you contribute this to https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib (and make it MIT licensed)? Would be easier for folks to find it then?