[Babeldoc-devel] Babeldoc 1.2 Happenings

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

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.