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

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat May 5 20:32:40 UTC 2018


Sorry for the delay, it's done.

I had to remember how to do it, for future reference, I ran this in
the SM administrator's page:

    (SMSqueakMap default packageWithName: 'XPath') beCommunitySupported


On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:29 AM, monty <monty2 at programmer.net> wrote:
>> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2018 at 4:47 AM
>> From: "Tobias Pape" <Das.Linux at gmx.de>
>> To: "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
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>> > On 04.05.2018, at 06:00, monty <monty2 at programmer.net> wrote:
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>> > 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".
>> >
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>> I want to stress that monty's implementation (xml and xpath) is very good, feature-, test-, and code-wise.
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> Thanks
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>> Note that the xml lib is not a drop-in replacement for the XML stuff in Trunk, as some API got straightened out.
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>> Maybe we should adopt the XML/XPath lib for trunk also. It makes talking to web resources that speak XML soooo much easier.
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> There's also the "XMLParser-HTML" project on SM, which allows you to parse HTML with XMLParser, and it works with related XMLParser libs, including XMLParser-XPath. It's also the fastest HTML parser (by far) available for Squeak (and Pharo and GemStone). I wrote it more as a proof of concept and haven't advertised it much, but I've gotten positive feedback on it from Pharo users.
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>> -t
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>> > 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.
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>> > My concern is that someone might install the older lib by mistake.
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>> > montyos.wordpress.com
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>> > 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.
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>> > frank
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>> > 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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>> >> ___
>> >> montyos.wordpress.com[http://montyos.wordpress.com]
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