[squeak-dev] Please transfer ownership or make me a co-maintainer of the orphaned SM "XPath" project

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Fri May 4 20:53:02 UTC 2018


+1
very welcome!

On 5/4/18, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Monty, Hi Tobias,
>
>> On May 4, 2018, at 1:47 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 04.05.2018, at 06:00, monty <monty2 at programmer.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> For Squeak (and Pharo and GemStone), the only actively-maintained,
>>> standards-compliant library I know of is the SmalltalkHub
>>> PharoExtras/XPath lib that I maintain, installable from the SM as
>>> "XMLParser-XPath".
>>>
>>
>> I want to stress that monty's implementation (xml and xpath) is very good,
>> feature-, test-, and code-wise.
>>
>> Note that the xml lib is not a drop-in replacement for the XML stuff in
>> Trunk, as some API got straightened out.
>>
>> Maybe we should adopt the XML/XPath lib for trunk also. It makes talking
>> to web resources that speak XML soooo much easier.
>
> +1.  If you two are actively using it, the tests pass, and you think it the
> right thing to do, IMO you should just go ahead.
>
>>
>> -t
>>
>>> It's actually a from-scratch (except some tests) rewrite of the SM
>>> "XPath" lib. I rewrote it because it was too unstable (would infinite
>>> loop on certain inputs) and only implemented a small portion of the
>>> required functionality.
>>>
>>> My concern is that someone might install the older lib by mistake.
>>> ___
>>> montyos.wordpress.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 at 12:36 PM
>>> From: "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Chris Muller" <ma.chris.m at gmail.com>, "The general-purpose Squeak
>>> developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Please transfer ownership or make me a
>>> co-maintainer of the orphaned SM "XPath" project
>>>
>>> Be careful - there are multiple different XPath repositories lying around
>>> - there's one on GitHub, for example.
>>>
>>> frank
>>>
>>> On 2 May 2018 at 09:34, Chris Muller
>>> <asqueaker at gmail.com[mailto:asqueaker at gmail.com]> wrote:Normally only the
>>> original author can do that.  If they are no longer
>>> available, I can add the 'Community Supported' tag, which would allow
>>> you to create additional releases for that package, but not delete any
>>> of the existing legacy Releases.
>>>
>>> Would that work for you?
>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:39 PM, monty
>>>> <monty2 at programmer.net[mailto:monty2 at programmer.net]> wrote:
>>>> "monty" on map.squeak.org[http://map.squeak.org]
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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