On 12/10/2011 9:25 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
On Dec 10, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
A little data: the HTML5lib project lives at
https://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
It has 4 owners and 22 other committers.
If there really are 4 'owners' rather than 4 people with admin access to
the site, then there are 4 people to negotiate with.
The most recent release, html5lib 0.90 for Python, is nearly 2 years
old. Since there is a separate Python3 repository, and there is no
mention on Python3 compatibility elsewhere that I saw, including the
pypi listing, I assume that is for Python2 only.
I believe that you are correct.
There are issues pointing to a 1.0 release, but I could not find any
current timetable. The project lots a bit stagnant. That does not bode
well for a commitment to future active maintenance.
A comment on a recent (July 11) Python3 issue
https://code.google.com/p/html5lib/issues/detail?id=187&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Port
<https://code.google.com/p/html5lib/issues/detail?id=187&colspec=ID
Type Status Priority Milestone Owner Summary Port>
suggest that the Python3 version still has problems. "Merged in now,
though still lots of errors and failures in the testsuite."
I don't see what bearing this has on the discussion.
I think both points above show that 'absorbing HTML5Lib in the stdlib'
will involve more sociological and technical problems than doing so with
a active one-person module that already runs on 3.2. One is that the
multiple version Python 2.x codebase is the reference version and that
will not be incorporated. A serious plan will have to address the real
situation.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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