Re: [Xmlstar-devel] xmlstarlet status - not dead :)

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:44 PM, André Kaplan <ak...@la...> wrote:
> Hi Noam,
>
> I'm also registered as a xmlstarlet developer.
> I'm monitoring what you've been working on these days.
>
> Could you briefly explain what you're doing?
> It looks like you're trying to close all open tickets and fixing some
> bugs, correct me if I'm wrong.

Exactly right, the ticket system isn't useful if it's filled with open,
spurious tickets. I fixed what I consider to be straightforward and
simple-to-fix bugs.

> Are you targeting for a bug fix release like 1.0.3 soon?

Yes, I'm working on cleaning up the build script and as soon as
that's done I'll release 1.0.3.

> I have a small bug fix for xml fo, I added an option to support input
> encoding.
>
> Once this is done do you have other plans?

Nothing definite, some of the suggestions in the Feature Requests tracker
look good.

> As for me, I made many changes to the xmlstarlet code base (mainly xml
> sel and ed).
> My first goal is to put everything I've done in a git branch, so that
> we can have some concrete matter to discuss with you, Dago, Mikhail
> (if he's still around) and possibly others and then integrate new
> features.
>
> Eventually, xml sel and ed will be completely rewritten.

Awesome, xml_select.c is a total mess.

Noam