Is Xara dead?

[RJARRRPCGP]

Based on stuff I read so far, it seriously looks like only the front end was GPL'ed!

Thus, it looks like just a front end of imagemagick.

[smartboyathome]

Yes, it is dead. I use Inkscape anyway, so I don't care.

[RJARRRPCGP]

I wonder if anyone has heard more about the progress of Xara Xtreme.

[binbash]

it is dead

[speedwell68]

it is dead

Which is a shame, I have found it quite useful for doing the odd little thing.

[Keyper7]

It's pretty much dead, and it cannot be resurrected by the community while the renderer source remains closed or a Cairo port is not made.

[graabein]

If would be great if Sun or IBM or another Linux friendly giant would buy them and open it completely for all platforms. Even Mac.

[raggari]

Somebody is trying to bring fork alive:
http://code.google.com/p/xarino/

[sidygafed]

yes good good good

[twright]

Thank you for having a look at the Xarino project

We still have a lot of work to do but with the support of the community we should be able to bring the project back to life and start adding new features again.

We will continue working with the closed source CDraw library as it is so important to the project but the code is sufficiently modular that we can make sure that the vast majority of the project which is open source is not affected by it too much - it is not a perfect solution but it is the only way the project can exist at all given the resources we have.