Re: [Vtd-xml-users] Problems building vtd-xml C# 2.12

[<al...@sa...>]

It appears there is now a 2.13 version only available in Java.

The 2.12 version source code only compiles in Java.

As mentioned below in May, the C# and other source code does not build as-is.
The code is also not in a condition where someone can just clean it up and make it build.

You are leaving your users of the C, C++, and C# languages in a bad place.
Lack of support for languages which were supported in the past is killing us - we can't update just the Java platform, so we update none of them.

Regards,
Al

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From: Jimmy Zhang <jz...@xi...> 
To: al...@sa..., vtd...@li... 
Sent: Tue, 31 May 2016 17:05:44 -0500 
Subject: Re: [Vtd-xml-users] Problems building vtd-xml C# 2.12

> The source distribution include a few files not really need to build the binary lib... 
> 
> .flex and .cup are the files that does the flex and xpath parsing compiler generation... they are the basis for yylex.cs and parser.cs...
> some of the files like
> 
>  .#FuncExpr.cs.1.28.
> 
> are old database file for CVS that survived(unfornately) a few rounds of cleanup 
> 
> As to pragma's I am not sure the cause of the problems.yet, at least my own build does not exhibit such issues.....
> 
> All other warning should be safely ignored... 
> 
> I will try to look into bundling the C# project files ... was a bit hesitate on doing so lest it cause back-compatibility issues for old version of Visual Studios
> 
> Overall, C# of vtd-xml is not as well focused as Java version...
> 
> next version 2.13 will try to clean things up to meet higher standards...
> 
> Thanks for the input
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: al...@sa...
> 
> To:<vtd...@li...>
> 
> Cc:
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> Sent:Thu, 26 May 2016 13:09:22 -0300
> 
> Subject:[Vtd-xml-users] Problems building vtd-xml C# 2.12
> 
> Wanted to update my project from 2.11 to 2.12.
> 
> Downloaded the source for vtd-xml 2.12 from sourceforge and tried to build in VisualStudio 2013 and
> Mono 4.
> 
> The build of vtd-xml 2.12 C# fails for a lot of reasons.
> 
> Here are the issues found trying to build vtd-xml 2.12 from source:
> - There are source code files with a pattern like .#FuncExpr.cs.1.28.
> They do not compile They appear to be diff or merge results.
> - There are other files with .flex, and .cup file extensions. They don't appear to be actual source
> code and they don't build.
> - All code with pragma warnings comes up as a build error with 'Unknown Number'. The comments around
> the warnings don't seem correct, so its hard to know what the correct number should be.
> Have to remove all pragma statements to get the code to compile.
> - Many classes in com.ximpleware.xpath complain that there is 'no suitable method found to override'
> for the isFinal(), markCacheable(), or clearCache() methods.
> This is very odd because the problem classes extend an abstract class which does not have the
> aforementioned 3 methods. There is no interface, so the abstract class is even more confusing.
> - It appears that com.ximpleware source is dependent on TUVienna, which has the same issues with the
> source code as vtd-xml.
> 
> QUESTIONS about building vtd-xml 2.12:
> 
> 1. Is the source code supposed to be in this condition? 
> Seems like its not really 'release ready'.
> 2. If the C# source won't build without heavy modification, does that mean it was never tested
> before it was released?
> 3. How would you suggest resolving the problem with the xpath classes? I want my version of vtd-xml
> to match what you intended to release.
> 
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