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[IXIN-dev] state of IXIN


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: [IXIN-dev] state of IXIN
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 10:52:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

This inaugural (to the mailing list) message describes where
IXIN is currently, and lays out the near-future plans.

Current status: Works w/ Guile 1.8.  For Guile 2.x, there is a
commit in the repo by Ricardo Wurmus to add entity-substitution
support in c/a1-nf3-guile2.  Light testing shows some weirdness
w/ the Guile 2.x builtin SXML modules: The output of attributes
is strangely ordered wrt the input.  Sometimes, the order is
preserved, sometimes reversed, sometimes completely scrambled.
We can work around the weirdness heuristically, but that's a
long-term lose.  Better to fix things in Guile 2.x.

Near (1-2 months) future: Someoneā„¢ needs to:
(0) describe IXIN scope better per feedback from Adam Spiers;
(1) resolve the attribute ordering weirdness:
  (a) file a bug report against Guile 2.x SXML handling;
  (b) follow through on its characterization and resolution;
  (c) propose a "decent kludge" for IXIN;
  (d) make it so;
(2) decide if (1c) and (1d) have sufficient merit to include
    in the next release -- (when MERITOUS BLOCK);
(3) release IXIN 1.9.

In the meantime, i encourage everyone to happily hack on IXIN
(in particular, the Emacs Lisp renderer), send / post feedback
(constructive or not :-D), and play w/ the IXIN support in GNU
Texinfo.  Latest hint:

 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2015-02/msg00006.html

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Thien-Thi Nguyen
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