[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Offer for help on the usage of google project page
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:03:59 -0600
Jamie,
Thanks for your comments. I have a lot to learn about the Open Source
collaboration tools, and your comments are very helpful. Eitan and I
will have to work out the problem with differences in autotools files.
On line endings in tables: The code was written to accept either Unix or
DOS line endings. However, Unix line endings are preferred. This could
be a problem for people who author or revise tables in Windows, however.
John
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:56:38AM +1000, James Teh wrote:
> On 16/12/2008 12:22 AM, Christian Egli wrote:
> >liblouis will be a little more tricky. I
> >guess we could overwrite everything in the subversion repository with
> >your source code, however it would probably be nice to include
> >improvements that have been done in the subversion repository (if there
> >are any).
> There shouldn't be any code differences from 1.3.9. However, the
> autotool stuff is different, the ChangeLog contains more detail and
> there are some unit tests.
> >So I guess this would have to be merged manually which is a
> >bit of work.
> I was going to sync the autotool stuff in svn with John's changes, but
> Eitan said that he also had an autotooled liblouisxml which worked with
> this, so I held off for a while. Eitan, have you had a chance ot check
> this out? It'd be good to get this autotool disgrepancy sorted out once
> and for all.
>
> Regarding the unit tests, given that unit testing in C is a bit painful,
> Eitan and I were thinking of doing the unit tests in Python. However,
> this would mean that test writers would need to know Python. On the
> other hand, it is far quicker and easier to write tests. Any thoughts on
> this?
>
> Concerning the Python bindings: John, they're in another svn branch,
> which is why you can't see them. They should be merged back into the
> main distribution once they're complete.
>
> There are a few other things that prevent a straight import of new stuff:
> * The liblouisxml tarball is user-ready; i.e. it contains ./configure,
> etc., which should be generated when required by ./autogen.sh. These
> files should be removed and an appropriate autogen.sh created. Any other
> files which can be automatically generated should likewise be removed.
> * There are major disgrepancies in the line ending style of the braille
> tables included with liblouis. Some are Unix line endings, some are DOS
> line endings, others are a combination of the two. A policy needs to be
> made on this and all files should be converted appropriately. I'm
> guessing that Unix line endings are the preference, given that the rest
> of the code adhears to this.
>
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