Re: [xml] guile bindings

[Nic <nferrier tapsellferrier co uk>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:23:52PM +0100, Nic wrote: 
>   okay 

Firstly, thanks for replying.

> Nic said:
> > But would anyone (particularly Daniel) be interested in a patch to 
> > the main libxml code to add guile as a distributed binding? (eg: a 
> > --with-guile patch to the autoconf?) 
>  
>   Hum, there is a lot of points which would need to be checked so that 
> those bindings gets distributed as part of libxml2 itself: 
>   1/ Licence should match 
>   2/ garantee of maintainability 
>   3/ completeness 
>   4/ cleanness  
>   5/ size 


Yes. I understand that these things would have to happen before I
handed code over to you for distribution inside the libxml2 distro.

However, a separately downloadable patch might still be useful.

The reason I think this is that the implementation of the library is
actually only 3 files. But with all the libtool and autoconf stuff
it's actually rather a lot of files.

A patch to either the Guile dist or the libxml2 dist would be a lot
less weighty.

  
>  in general adding the bindings means as a result that I guarantee some 
> level of support, and that's something which might take a bit of time 
> to estimate. I would really prefer bindings which are automatically gnerated 
> from the XML API definition of the library, this somewhat garantees a 
> minimum status for point 2/ 3/ and 4/ . 

Yes. Sounds like something to work towards.


>   I have no idea at the moment about the current state of your code, 
> and it would be premature - I think - to say yes at this point. But I'm 
> in general interested in getting good bindings for common languages. 

My code is now up on savannah:

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guilexmlxsl

There's CVS access and a tarball.


Nic