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Originally Posted by Hitch
@colink:
With all due respect for your idea, if we had that type of funding, this discussion wouldn't be happening. The whole point of this thread is that putting Sigil into Python is a major project.
Righty-o?
Hitch
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Yes, and no.
Sigil's problem is that it violates one of the open source paradigms, in that the people who USE it also are able to MODIFY it. In Sigil's case, it seems like the vast majority of users are writers who are great at writing prose, but not so good at writing C++ or python.
Kovidgoyal already said that if Sigil had been written in python that he'd consider adopting it and adding it to Calibre.
So my thought, which wasn't very detailed, is that while no one aside from Mark Shuttleworth could afford to hire a full-time programmer to rebuild Sigil in python, that perhaps some of the 41 contributors to Calibre could be incentivized to take on that work.
Maybe we could raise enough money to get a Google Summer of Code project, or maybe a python user group or a community member would be willing to take it on. All those, however, require some kind of promotion or flag waving.
It would probably also require user_none's buyin, and Kovidgoyal really didn't talk about it beyond the bare idea of adoption.