> Hi all,
>
> some questions about libwbxml: Is upstream dead? (0.10.0 is 1 year
> late! http://libwbxml.aymerick.com/roadmap) It would make my life easier
> if he produced a new release, but I understand he hasn't even got our
> patches into his svn yet. I know someone sent him the patches (can't
> remember who) but they don't seem to have gone anywhere. It's not even
> listed in Trac (http://libwbxml.aymerick.com/report/1) afaict.
>
> For SynCE to ever be marked stable in Gentoo, it can't depend on an svn
> snapshot of libwbxml. Marking it stable won't be an issue straight
> away, but I'd like to see it done eventually.
>
> So, can we either:
>
> 1. provide patches against latest libwbxml release (0.9.2) and not
> svn version?
> 2. fork libwbxml and maintain it ourselves :)
> 3. put the pressure on upstream again, to see if we can get a new
> release (or any comment)? At the very least, a release of the
> current svn snapshot would be fine, if option 1. isn't possible.
>
> What do you guys think?
Pressure is not very good for motivating Open Source developers :-)
Maybe you could check what other projects depend on libwbxml and see if we
could work on a common cause?
A couple of other options:
4. Ask if some of us could join the project
5. Ask if the current maintainer is willing to give away the project
to us
6. Get rid of libwbxml as a dependency. For my indefinitely
postponed MidaSync project I wrote the WBXML stuff needed for
AirSync myself. It's less than 1500 lines of code including
conversion between XML and WBXML, and I got it in C++ like I wanted.
On the other hand, now it depends on libxml++ and Boost! ;-) Drop me
a mail if you want to have a look at it anyway.
Regards,
David
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