[Slackbuilds-users] Updated Xerces-c and Xalan-c Slackbuilds

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Saturday 05 May 2012 23:22:19 Slacker build user wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I do not recall sending to the list before, I hope this is the right way to
> do it - please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> I posed the following questions to the maintainer of Xerces-c and Xalan-c
> about a week ago but have not received a response, so I thought I would
> post it here before it fades from memory.

Sorry about that. As it turns out your email somehow ended up in my SPAM 
folder, which is why I missed it :/

> I use both Xerces-c and Xalan-c and have needed to update Xerces-c from
> 2.8.0 (the current SBo build) to the 3.x series (currently 3.1.1). The 3.x
> uses GNU automake whereas the 2.x did not, among other things, so that much
> more than a simple version change is required. So I adapted the SBo script.
> 
> But, the current Xalan-c release (1.10.0) requires Xerces-c and will not
> build against the 3.x Xerces-c. However, Xalan-c from svn will build
> against 3.1.1 and is the method recommended in most online lists I found.
> 
> So, I adapted a slackbuild script to download the latest svn of Xalan-c and
> build it as Xalan-c-1.11.0 (the version appears in the current svn branch).
> 
> So, I now have current Xerces-c/Xalan-c build scripts which might be useful
> to others. But the catch is that for those who require an 'official'
> release version of Xalan-c, they must build against Xerces-c-2.8.0, so it
> seems to me that we would not want to replace the existing Xerces-c or
> Xalan-c scripts on SBo.
> 
> My question then is this: Should I submit the new versions under a different
> name such as Xerces-c_3 and Xalan-c-svn with explanation in the README? Or
> is there a better way to handle this? Or should I keep it to myself and
> just offer them to anyone interested? ;-)

There is no need to add new SlackBuilds for different versions really. It's 
perfectly fine to update one to a svn snapshot, provided the maintainer sees it 
as stable enough. Of course then you'd need to host a snapshot of it 
somewhere, just as Audrius mentioned.

I do have updates available for them too, but held off on submitting because I 
wanted to test the apps using xerces-c and xalan-c before to make sure nothing 
breaks. However, since I do not use either of them anymore, they were not very 
high on my priority list.

If you use them and would like to take over maintainership of them, feel free 
to do so. You're already much better fit to maintain them than I am :)

Grs,
Heinz
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