On 24 June 2015 at 18:12, Douglas R. Reno <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

cURL is pretty much the de facto standard when working with unstructured
data.

Richard
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