PyXML XPath and XSLT Re: [XML-SIG] Mass assignment of 4Suite bug reports

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com> writes:
> 
> > These modules have been broken a good long while, 
> 
> Correct. They have been waiting for the next 4Suite release all the
> time.
> 
> > and they lag 4XPath and 4XSLT in 4Suite woefully.
> 
> They may lag the current implementation, but they don't lag the latest
> released version that much.
> 
> > There are aspects of the 4Suite code base that makes it unsuitable
> > for PyXML.  For one thing, we only support Python 2.1 and up now.
> > For another, I think we used some C modules that Martin felt were
> > too much to dump into PyXML.
> 
> Yes, in particular the bison parser modules.

There is even more that has moved to C recently in 4Suite, so we'll certainly 
want to keep in mind general principles about what we want to keep in Python 
int he PyXPath/PyXSLT versions.  I do like the idea of keeping them mostly 
Python for max cross-platform support.


> > So if there is anyone who could work as co-maintainer with me, great.  We 
> > could maybe even back-port some of the *many* improvements in 4Suite 
> > (especially in performance) little by little.  
> 
> I've been planning to move to the 4Suite code base as-is once 0.12 is
> released, wholesale. I don't think the backporting-to-2.0 issues will
> be significant, and can be done little by little. Performing the
> merging little by little seems to be a waste of time to me.

OK, then.


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