Time to replace GIF?

I stumbled upon this project on Kickstarter: apngasm
and noticed the USD2500 pledge level:
Ports of our base APNG libraries and tools for the language/platform of your choice.
You/your company will be fully accredited. Please add SDK or development hardware
costs when applicable. Your choice of Open Source license.

This could be a chance to actually get a port done by someone outside the regular Amiga community and get some extra attention to our platform from people who do not know it still exists.

I posted a project proposal on AmigaBounty.net: http://amigabounty.net/?function=viewproject&projectid=109

Wow, 2500$ in 26 days.
Anyway I bet they would not expect to develop this on a non-POSIX operating system I wonder if they would really do it.

@Elwood

I don't see why not - standard C is pretty portable and OS4 is POSIXy enough for most things. It's only a library and some command line tools as far as I can tell - the sort of thing that has been ported to OS4 multiple times before with no or minimal changes.

It's all open source anyway, so I'd rather try and build it myself than hand over $2500 and another $1000 of computer for somebody else (not familiar to the platform) to do it!

edit actually I just noticed it says graphical tool, so there is quite a bit of work there. As it's open source and presumably needs to target Windows, then I'd guess they'd either use something like Qt, or abstract the GUI away from the rest of the code. If they use Qt then OS4 will be a breeze for them, otherwise I can see them struggling.

Hmm... I'd pay $2500 to get them to port it to a ZX81. If they can do it they've earnt the cash!

This is the troublesome bit, the rest should be a cinch:
Quote:

Pointless to port an authoring tool.

Port the apng library and implement a player / add support to a webbrowser or whatever theyre supposed to be used in.

As hollywood 5 supports loading and saving APNG files it should be fairly easy for someone to knock up a graphical authoring tool with it.