[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouisxml and Autotools
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:20:43 -0500
Eitan,
Thanks much for taking on this task! I am answering your questions in
the body of your message below.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:17:21PM -0700, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for those pointers. I started working on a local autotooled copy,
> it is looking promising.
>
> I have a few questions about the current liblouisxml tarball that you
> could hopefully clear up:
> - A bunch of files in lbx_files seem to be tables that exist in
> liblouis. Could we eliminate them, and have all braille translation
> tables only in liblouis?
No. the tables in lbx_files are actually used. The ones in liblouis are
only for testing and reference. The tables in lbx_files are kept
up-to-date. That is net necessarily true of the tables in the moreTables
subdirectory of liblouis. In fact, that subdirectory might be eliminated
and the tables provided in another way.
> - louis.h exists in the "src" directory, this seems to be a copy of
> liblouis's public header. My autotooled version automatically pics up
> the path to the installed header. Could we get rid of this? It will also
> eliminate the 2 or 4 byte character problem.
Yes. liblouisxml inherits 2 or 4-byte characters from liblouis.
> - There are a bunch of files that exist both in the doc directory and
> the lbx_files directory, for example the cfg files and the *.sem files.
> Could we consolidate them into the lbx directory? If not could we give
> them another name? maybe prefix them with example_ if the are supposed
> to be examples.
They are examples. However, since they are in a different directory I
didn't think it was necessary to change the file names. It might be a
good idea.
> - The tarball had a compiled binary in lbx_files called makenemethdefs.
> I assume this was a mistake, and if anything only the source file should
> be there.
Both the binary and the source can be elimitated. They were used in
early developmnt.
> - There are some files in lbx_files ending in ".p", should they be
> there?
No. they are fragments used in development. Also get rid of any files
that begin "old_". I'll have to do a better job of getting rid of junk.
> - I hope to find a way for autogenerating sem_names.h like you did you
> your tarball, in the meantime, it is distributed statically.
That is ok for now. My updates will always have the latest semnames.h
anyway.
> - Also a nice feature would be proper cfg file search paths: First look
> for cfg files in the CWD, then the users home directory under
> ".louisxml", and if nothing is found - go to the system default in
> "/etc". Obviously this will only work well in POSIX platforms, I'll
> think of something for Windows too.
The choices.h file is supposed to give a choice of where liblouisxml
will look for files and even allow changing the name of the lbx_files
directory. It was introduced to make assigning paths in a web
application easier.
Thanks,
John
>
> Cheers,
> Eitan.
>
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 13:10 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Eitan,
> >
> > liblouisxml has two dependencies, libxml2 and liblouis. I think libxml2
> > also requires iconv. I was working on shell commands to test for these
> > dependencies when I got involved with other commitments.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:25:18AM -0700, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 08:53 +0100, Lars Bj??rndal wrote:
> > > > Maybe you are also willing to make liblouisxml autotooled and SVN-ed?
> > > > That would be great, I think!
> > >
> > > Now that you mention it, I'll get to it sooner rather than later!
> > >
> > > For a description of the software and to download it go to
> > > http://www.jjb-software.com
> >
>
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
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JJB Software, Inc.
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