XML, TL setup
Fabrice POPINEAU
Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr
23 Oct 1999 18:16:13 +0200
Hi,
I have closed the changes I wanted to make to the bulk core of fptex. So
fpTeX-0.4 binaries (beta) might be available soon. Issues that are
remaining :
- enhancements to windvi (dvips printing !)
- texconfig
- documentation
So I have switched to the installer, namely fpsetup.exe . My question
is : given that I need a text description of the packages, is it
stupid to build a data driven setup that will take an xml file as
input and do the installation ? A perl script could build most of the
xml file(s) from your lists files. Some hand tweaking might be needed. I
still do not know if it is bound to fail. The goal would be to build
*also* a command line program or a library in C or C++ and portable
between Unix and win32 to do the setup. I envisaged to use expat to
read the xml file. I can send a DTD and an XML setup file (forgive me:
this is my first try at using this stuff).
Any ideas welcome,
--
Fabrice