Re: [Cellar] EBML Schema

I want to second encouragement for a move off of a platform that doesn't
support open source collaboration (Drupal site) and into something that
does (GitHub Readme and/or gh-pages). I'm also happy to volunteer the time
& effort to making this happen.

My best,
Ashley Blewer

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Dave Rice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Moritz,
> > On Dec 1, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Moritz Bunkus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> >> I’m preparing a pull request on specdata.xml but want to update the
> >> utilities in spectool at the same time so that spec2data, data2lib,
> >> and data2spec still function properly. I’m having trouble getting the
> >> spectool utilities to build properly so that I can test them.
> >
> > All of that is Steve's code and I don't know a lot about coremake and
> > the assorted build process (and there's zero documentation), but I do
> > manage to get it to compile most of the time ;)
> >
> > From a fresh checkout of the foundation repository[1] in ~/foundation:
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > 1. Build and install coremake:
> >
> > cd ~/foundationcorec/tools/coremake
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Unfortunately coremake has /usr/local/share/coremake hardcoded on Linux
> > for looking up its include files; therefore the "make install" is
> > actually really necessary.
> >
> > 2. Configure the rest of the project with coremake:
> >
> > cd ~/foundation
> > coremake gcc_linux_x64
> >
> > 3. Compile the tools (mkvtree, mkvalidator, mkclean; optional):
> >
> > cd ~/foundation
> > make
> >
> > 4. Compile the programs in spectool:
> >
> > cd ~/foundation
> > make -C spectool
> >
> > 5. Use the programs:
> >
> > # This creates spec.xml from specdata.xml. spec.xml is basically the
> > # HTML table you see on www.matroska.org/technical/specs/:
> >
> > cd ~/foundation/spectools
> > ../release/gcc_linux_x64/data2spec
> >
> > ——————————
>
> These instructions worked well. To help the next person who happens along,
> I converted your notes into a basic README which I sent as a pull request
> here: https://github.com/Matroska-Org/foundation-source/pull/6.
>
> >> I was able to build coremake but not sure where to go from here.
> >
> > The whole foundation repo could use a serious rewrite of its build
> > system. Steve had reasons why he created coremake, but the result is
> > very, very complicated to use. If you (or anyone else) want to give such
> > a rewrite a try I'd highly welcome it.
>
> I am interested in the foundation repo since it is the home of the
> Matroska instance of the basis of the conceptual EBML Schema
> (specdata.xml). To work on moving the current state of specdata.xml towards
> a more standardized EBML Schema expression I should synchronize the work on
> specdata.xml to the spectools so that the foundation repo doesn’t break
> because of IETF work.
>
> The rest of the foundation repo may be out of scope to the charter. There
> is obviously a lot of documentation on Matroska use on matroska.org but
> that appears to be based in your Drupal site rather than this repo.
>
> I think we still need a good method to handle linking pull requests,
> comments, and discussion upon the Matroska documentation. Drupal makes this
> a bit difficult. Should we move some of this documentation to GitHub as
> well and have a similar process as spec.xml with the other documentation
> (i.e. build it from a repo and copy/paste it to Drupal). Or potentially we
> could move some Matroska documentation from Drupal to GitHub gh-pages as
> done with the EBML Specification website (formerly on sourceforge).
>
> >> Any advice on which route to take: continue trying with getting
> >> spectool utilities to build or redo the utilities in xsl?
> >
> > I'd prefer established technologies like XSLT in this case as it allows
> > you to use a plethora of proven tools like xsltproc or any other XSLT
> > processor (Saxon?). You can (and should) still build the tools with the
> > instructions above so that you verify stuff works :)
>
> This is verified. If XSLT is welcome I certainly think it’s much more
> familiar.
> Thanks,
> Dave Rice
>
> > Kind regards,
> > mosu
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/Matroska-Org/foundation-source/
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