[TUHS] Re: pic

[Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 8:13 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wrote to Brian, who works part-time at Google, and
> > pitched the idea to him, and he extended pic to
> > generate SVG, though it wasn't clear to what sources
> > he was modifying, exactly. Then the pandemic hit, and
> > I ended up leaving Google, so I don't think it went
> > beyond that, but IIRC he said that coercing pic to
> > generate SVG wasn't particularly difficult.
>
> I'm sure he'd have been messing with his own sources. These
> days it'd be best to tr to get new features into GNU pic
> (IMHO, of course).

Oh surely. I just don't know what sources those would
be, exactly; presumably some derivative he's been
shepherded all these years? I wonder what it is....

        - Dan C.