[racket-dev] sxml package takeover/updates?

2011-02-15 Thread John Clements
Dimitry (cc:ed) seems to be unresponsive. Currently, the sxml package has a tiny little problem in its info.rkt file which results in a grotesquely inflated compile time; ryan reported this quite some time ago. Based on the license notices in some of the source files, it appears that this

Re: [racket-dev] sxml package takeover/updates?

2011-02-15 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:52 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: I understand that PLaneT is not currently set up to make it easy to migrate packages to new owners. It shouldn't be difficult to download a .plt file and re-upload it under another name. This ends up being roughly

Re: [racket-dev] sxml package takeover/updates?

2011-02-15 Thread Noel Welsh
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:52 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: Opinions? Does anyone feel strongly about preserving the cross-platform nature of the current library? Nope. Racketizing the library would be good. N. _ For

Re: [racket-dev] sxml package takeover/updates?

2011-02-15 Thread Neil Van Dyke
If Oleg, Kirill, and Dmitry would like someone to take over maintaining the Racket PLaneT packages of SSAX and the SXML tools, I would be happy to volunteer. (Kirill and I talked recently about some changes to the Racket packaging of SSAX that I have done through a wrapper package.