Re: XSLT 2.0 processor for DragonFly

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/3/3 Colin Adams <colinpauladams@googlemail.com>:
> On 02/03/2008, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  :Gestalt is now available for DragonFly from:
>  >
>
>
> >     Very interesting!  Have you considered creating a pkgsrc package
>  >     for it?  That would integrate it into the package framework for
>  >     several BSDs (including DragonFly).
>
>  I briefly thought about it.
>
>  To compile from source requires two other libraries - one of which
>  would mean a snapshot from subversion, the other needs an alpha test
>  version plus 3 patches. So for now, no. Later perhaps.


The other thing is, it is extremely tedious to have to package source
code in a large number of different formats, depending upon the
operating system. It would be really nice if an XML standard for
software packaging could be agreed upon. Then all a maintainer would
have to do is write the package content descriptor XML file once, and
run the packer command for the specific operating system.