some problems and questions

hello,
    I've been trying to create a feed for winbuilds sdl2 package, and
I've run into a number of problems.

1. The windows publishing tool crash if you past a > into a field.
2. The windows tools doesn't seem to know what a *.txz archive.

So I started looking at using the Linux publish tool.

3. Gentoo no longer has a zero install package, or most of ROX for that
matter.
4. Gentoo also doesn't have all the necessary versions of software
installable to compile it. I think it was some Ocaml package dependency
that foiled this attempt

These are not directly your area of course, but still of interest to you.
so I downloaded the binary package and installed that in my home bin
directory.

Running the install for 0publish-gui I noticed that it required zero
install 1.14, which is odd running in 2.10, and that it wasn't picking
up the gentoo GPG package that is its dependency and is listed in the feed.

0launch posts a message taller than the screen when you cancel.

I created a native feed with
<package-implementation distributions="Gentoo" main="/usr/bin/gpg"
package="app-crypt/gnupg"/>
and that seemed to work not sure if its because its a native feed or if
the full package path works better.

0publish-GUI doesn't seem to allow using nested groups like on windows.
It seems to take a long time to add groups elements
It doesn't list "application/x-xz-compressed-tar" for archives but
supplies that when guess is selected.
It also complains if you save and test that there is no run element but
of course libs shouldnt have them.

Here is what I have so far let me know if its flawed, or could be better

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<interface
xmlns="http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/2004/injector/interface">
  <name>SDL2</name>
  <summary>Simple DirectMedia Layer Version 2</summary>
  <description>
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to

provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D
hardware via

OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software,

emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of

&amp;quot;Civilization: Call To Power.&amp;quot;

SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD,
NetBSD,

OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for
AmigaOS,

Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but
these are

not officially supported.

SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to
several

other languages, including Ada, C#, D, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Guile,
Haskell,

Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Pike, Pliant,
Python, Ruby,

Smalltalk, and Tcl.</description>
  <homepage>http://www.libsdl.org</homepage>
  <category>Graphics</category>
  <icon href="http://www.libsdl.org/media/SDL_logo.png" type="image/png"/>
  <group license="OSI Approved :: zlib/libpng License">
    <package-implementation distributions="Arch" package="sdl2"/>
    <package-implementation distrobutions="Cygwin RPM" package="libSDL2"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Debian MacPorts"
package="libsdl2"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Gentoo"
package="media-libs/libsdl2"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Ports" package="sdl20"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Slack" package="SDL2"/>
    <implementation arch="Windows-x86_64" doc-dir="doc/SDL2-2.0.3"
id="sha1new=fbd4e672a96fea2fa14a4839bf39d0c406d4e54a"
released="2015-11-28" version="2.0.3-1">
      <archive extract="windows_32"
href="http://win-builds.org/1.5.0/packages/windows_32/SDL2-2.0.3-1-i686-w64-mingw32.txz"
size="489620" type="application/x-xz-compressed-tar"/>
    </implementation>
    <implementation arch="Windows-i386" doc-dir="doc/SDL2-2.0.3"
id="sha1new=d02c29087ffb9c94fa8378510013f910c635907b"
released="11/28/2014" version="2.0.3-1">
    <archive extract="windows_64"
href="http://win-builds.org/1.5.0/packages/windows_64/SDL2-2.0.3-1-x86_64-w64-mingw32.txz"
size="503124" type="application/x-xz-compressed-tar"/>
  </implementation>
  </group>
</interface>

also if any of those are bugs you would like written up, let me know.
Thanks,
Phil.

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