Re: [Xmlrpc-developers] What's up?

[Doug O. <do...@pl...>]

Greger Ohlson writes:
 > I'm afraid that introducing changes in the interfaces is not very
 > popular, so I guess we will select the changes that will not break
 > any existing clients.

Just curious, how many existing clients are there?  How widely used is
the Marqu=E9e XML-RPC library?

 > If you like, I'll give you developer access to the CVS and you may
 > feel free to incorporate your changes directly.

I'm still just getting my feet wet, so I don't really feel confident
enough to directly change the CVS tree.  I'd feel more comfortable
sending you my patches so that you can double-check them first.
Thanks for the offer, though.

Right now, I'm having some trouble building the library using Ant with
the build.xml file.  I'm guessing you usually use JBuilder, but it
would be nice if Ant worked as well.  The first problem I run into is
that the word "Marqu=E9e" (in a comment) causes an error:

  BUILD FAILED
  Error reading project file /usr/local/xmlrpc/build.xml: Invalid byte 2 =
of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.

When I change it to "Marquee" it gets past this problem.  I thought
perhaps I was using an outdated version of Ant, but I just installed
Ant 1.6.1beta1 and I still get that message.  Is there some
command-line argument to get Ant to read Latin-1 characters?  Maybe I
should be pursuing this on the Ant mailing list...  I just was
wondering how nobody else ran into this.

Once I fix that problem, I get some javac compile errors.  It can't
find the junit package, so I guess I need to install that; it also
can't find a class named "HttpServlet", but I have no idea where
that's supposed to come from since it's not mentioned in the import
statements (in the file testing/ServletExample.java).  Are there any
other external files I need to install before I can build?

Thanks for your help,
--Doug Orleans
do...@pl...