Re: xmlspec Update

[Jaco Greeff <jaco puxedo org>]

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I've checked in xml2spec-20020526.tar.bz2 at
>
> 	cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel login
> 	(no password, just carriage return)
> 	cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel get xmlspec
> 	cd xmlspec
>
> There's a symlink in the repository to pull out xmlspec as a subdirectory
> of an rpm-4.1 top-of-stack checkout as well.

Done, works :)

> > 3. I've actually spend some time commenting the header files. Long slog.
>
>
> I'll be happy to help with the doco, will convert to doxygen (what rpm
> uses) if/when the time comes.

We are using ccdoc here (also JavaDoc-based) so the syntax is really 
close to being compliant. I'll look at the doxygen stuff, to make it 
fully compliant won't take too long. The basic are there alreday.

> Hey, I'm winging it too. Please understand I'm mostly clueless when it
> comes to C++ and XML. I know enough to get myself in trouble, no more :-)

I'll spend some time on the weekend documenting the actual XML format 
and the mapping of the tags to their spec equivalents. If I have some 
time left, I'll start putting something together to slow the flow of the 
various classes and how the parsing bit works. (FYI, expat is a small 
XML C parser, which is why I've used it. If we need to re-do the stuff 
is pure C it will be a cinch.)

> Hmm, I believe you're asking if the Source structure should be treated
> opaquely. ATM, It Really Doesn't Matter, you're the first person
> ever to include rpmspec.h in code AFAIK.

Ok, I'll soldier on ;) (First however is added most of the XML to spec 
mapping, about 90% there.)

> It's early yet, and there's much needs doing. The immediate goal should
> be to establish a proof-of-concept example that is sufficiently
> rich and yet still (or at least mostly) one-to-one with the existing syntax.

Will finish off, and then complain about generation ;)

Greetings,
Jaco