[redland] Redland News 2000-02-21

[Dave Beckett]

>>>Seth Russell said:
> Any chance ever of getting a COM dll file for our Win32
> platforms ?  Me thinks it's some kind of nerdish snobbery
> for you API designers to always keep leaving out the
> majority of computer users.  But I love your interface :)
> Too bad it's useless to me :(

My sole PC runs Linux only and I'm not going to change that since it
works real well.  I guess I could try cross-compiling to Win32 or
running some kind of emulator but that would require buying software
and getting various Win32 development things - libraries, header
files, documentation from an SDK.  

Finally, I don't have any experience with developing for Win32 and it
isn't required for the project I'm working on so I can't justify
spending a lot of time on it.

It would be a lot of time since these things would need to be addressed:
  All new Win32 configure and building
  Handling filenames, generating temporary files would need changes.
  Bound to be some newline dependencies things, maybe ascii/binary
    file handling too.
  Win32 DLL's probably need special support and I make no promises
    that Redland will work as a shared library as discussed
    previously.
  Usual changes needed for different compilers

plus ongoing maintenance of the above.

> and thank you Jason Diamond, for providing us PC people a
> way to parse RDF/XML  !!

Yeah, Repat is great and my standard C parser (until I get mine
tested a lot more!).  Take a look at his site - other neat related
stuff at http://injektilo.org/

However you probably use all the Java and pure Perl, Python and Tcl
systems out there.  There are links from the Redland documentation
pages plus my RDF guide.

Dave