Re: Can I take wml and eperl?
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> maintains
> wml and eperl. Last mentions of him in changelogs
> is Oct/Sep.. There are new versions out, both packages
> suffer a bug, etc.
Sure, I guess you could take those packages. However, you might like to
contact Heiko Schlittermann first to see if he's still around. <smile>
> If no-one protests I'll make new versions of these
> (eperl is ready;) and upload - as soon as I can arrange
> an account on master, that is..
Sorry, I beat you to it on that one. <grin> I just uploaded
eperl_2.2.8-0.1 (i386) to master and fixed Bug#14865 along the way.
However, /usr/bin/eperl (and /usr/bin/wml_p3_eperl) still gives a
segmentation fault after processing a file. Hmm...
(Hehe, I already got my account in the summer, so I could "abuse" my
privilege. Sorry! <smile>) BTW, it was a non-maintainer upload, so if
Heiko agrees, you can take the package. But before you do that, please
incorporate the changes that I made too, because I spent quite a few hours
on it and fixed various outstanding problems. <smile>
> PS. Currently wml includes eperl, iselect,
> weblint, m4, txt2html etc. I intend to split
> these (atleast the bigger ones) to separate
> packages, and make wml depend on them. See
> /usr/doc/wml/COPYRIGHT.OTHER. No reason to
> have eperl or m4 installed twice.. But that
> cames *after* getting a working version out.
I am ambivalent on this one. Currently, the installed size of WML is only
1990 KB, i.e. less than 2 MB. Basically, the ePerl, m4, etc. included in
WML are somewhat stripped down already (i.e. no example files, just the
executables and the manpages). It might not worth the trouble to split up
the package.
Have a Merry Christmas! :)
Anthony
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