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From: Bruce M. <br...@mc...> - 2003-10-02 04:08:48
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Hello all! Babeldoc 1.2 is coming up. Thank you to all those who made this a great release. Babeldoc is both deeper and wider in all its areas. Nothing has been untouched. From multitasking to the new scanner to the modular build. Things that need work are J2EE, GUI and web (Just as ask Bill Harrelson: keep talking Bill, we can make this work and get Babeldoc running better). Thanks to Qin who came with a pipeline configuration that obviously breaks Babeldoc (Qin's arrangement was that the current working directory contained the BABELDOC_USER directory with all the configuration files - investigation is required here - I volunteer, suggestions/patches welcomed). Just keep coming with the work - its been great working with you all. Dejan and I were talking today about opening up the modules. We recognize that Babeldoc needs to get bigger than the standard set of modules that it comes with. The issue is then how to manage the creation of modules (think plugins going forward). Creating and managing modules should be a simple and straightforward. This includes how and where Babeldoc module source code gets stored. Personally I envisage a command that would download or otherwise locate and retrieve a Babeldoc module for building or running. (this implies some kind of registry: UDDI?) How are you developing using Babeldoc and how do you think that we should be developing with Babeldoc in the future? regards, Bruce. |