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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