Should inkscape take over libcroco?
I just received a fairly surly reponse to a libcroco bug on bugzilla.gnome. Apparently the upstream is so inactive that gnome doesn't want to see bugs about it. Inkscape appears to be a major user of this library and (last I knew) had some unmerged (or at least unreleased) patches for it. Might be worthwhile for an inkscape dev to get developer access to the project on gnome to keep it alive. Bonus: could actually use it as an external dependency instead of needing bundled source? dan
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On 2010-12-17 14:48, Daniel Macks wrote:
I just received a fairly surly reponse to a libcroco bug on bugzilla.gnome. Apparently the upstream is so inactive that gnome doesn't want to see
bugs
about it. Inkscape appears to be a major user of this library and (last I knew) had some unmerged (or at least unreleased) patches for it. Might be worthwhile for an inkscape dev to get developer access to the project on gnome to keep it alive. Bonus: could actually use it as an external dependency instead of needing bundled source?
This makes me wonder what other people are using? I couldn't find that many alternatives with a quick Google search.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:
On 2010-12-17 14:48, Daniel Macks wrote:
I just received a fairly surly reponse to a libcroco bug on bugzilla.gnome.
> Apparently the upstream is so inactive that gnome doesn't want to see bugs > about it. Inkscape appears to be a major user of this library and > (last I knew) had some unmerged (or at least unreleased) patches for it. > Might be worthwhile for an inkscape dev to get developer access to > the project on gnome to keep it alive. Bonus: could actually use it > as an external dependency instead of needing bundled source?
This makes me wonder what other people are using? I couldn't find that many alternatives with a quick Google search.
It's a great question because I spent the better part of an evening trying to find this same answer and really didn't turn much up.
Cheers, Josh
Jasper, Josh, By all means I think that is the best course of action. The library is used by us, and if noone is maintaining it lets ask to take it over. Regards, Leo Albert Jackson Jr
--- On Fri, 12/17/10, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
From: Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Should inkscape take over libcroco? To: "Jasper van de Gronde" <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 12:40 PM
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:
On 2010-12-17 14:48, Daniel Macks wrote:
I just received a fairly surly reponse to a libcroco bug on bugzilla.gnome.
> Apparently the upstream is so inactive that gnome doesn't want to see bugs > about it. Inkscape appears to be a major user of this library and > (last I knew) had some unmerged (or at least unreleased) patches for it. > Might be worthwhile for an inkscape dev to get developer access to > the project on gnome to keep it alive. Bonus: could actually use it > as an external dependency instead of needing bundled source?
This makes me wonder what other people are using? I couldn't find that many alternatives with a quick Google search.
It's a great question because I spent the better part of an evening trying to find this same answer and really didn't turn much up.
Cheers, Josh
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2010/12/17 Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...>:
This makes me wonder what other people are using? I couldn't find that many alternatives with a quick Google search.
I think they might not be using any library, only a parser generated from the grammar published by W3C.
There's also htmlcxx, but this includes some HTML-related code and is only slightly less moribund than croco, and for Python there's cssutils. http://sourceforge.net/projects/htmlcxx/ http://cthedot.de/cssutils/
Regards, Krzysztof
On Friday, December 17, 2010, 3:11:22 PM, Jasper wrote:
JvdG> On 2010-12-17 14:48, Daniel Macks wrote:
I just received a fairly surly reponse to a libcroco bug on bugzilla.gnome. Apparently the upstream is so inactive that gnome doesn't want to see
JvdG> bugs
about it. Inkscape appears to be a major user of this library and (last I knew) had some unmerged (or at least unreleased) patches for it. Might be worthwhile for an inkscape dev to get developer access to the project on gnome to keep it alive. Bonus: could actually use it as an external dependency instead of needing bundled source?
JvdG> This makes me wonder what other people are using? I couldn't find that JvdG> many alternatives with a quick Google search.
I'm aware of a few CSS parsers, mostly old/bitrotted:
Steady State CSS2 Parser Java http://cssparser.sourceforge.net/ Last Modified: 2004/11/29
CSSTidy includes a parser C++ and PHP http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/ Latest news: July 19, 2007
ruby-css-parser Ruby http://code.google.com/p/ruby-css-parser/ Latest release: Jun 2008
W3C CSS Validator has a parser Java http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/DOWNLOAD.html http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/css-validator/org/w3c/css/parser/ Lastmod: Jan 5 13:49:33 2010
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