[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouisxml and Autotools (was Re: Re: Free Coffee, Maybe
- From: Eitan Isaacson <eitan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:17:21 -0700
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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are some files in lbx_files ending in ".p", should they be
there?
- I hope to find a way for autogenerating sem_names.h like you did you
your tarball, in the meantime, it is distributed statically.
- 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.
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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