On Jun 24, 2015 2:02 AM, "Armin K." <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/24/2015 01:54 AM, Paul Rogers wrote: > >>>> I'm looking at building LibreOffice for the first time (never had > >>>> the horsepower before). The "7.2" book only covers the *-core-* > >>>> package. What about the binfilter, help, dictionaries, but maybe not > >>>> the translations "packages" also at the source? Useful? Not? > >>>> > >>>> Also, digging down the dependency chain there's raptor, "a C library > >>>> that provides a set of parsers and serializers that generate > >>>> Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples." It has a dependency > >>>> on cURL. I've got wget which seems enough for the downstream, would > >>>> rather not duplicate "fetchers", and can't understand why an RDF > >>>> parser needs cURL anyway! Anybody know what's going on here? > > > > Repeating question: anybody know why raptor needs cURL? Seems odd. > > > > Doesn't seem to requre it. But it uses it for retriving files from www. > According to the page, cURL can be used for more than just retrieving files from the www. It can do file access from most protocols or prefixes. Raptor may need cURL for this purpose. I have never looked at the source code, so I cannot be 100% sure, but it I think that is probably what Raptor uses it for.
Douglas R. Reno
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