Re: lxml versions

Laurence Rowe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel
Message-ID <CAOycyLRNAUJUY2ObSDjnRcKNL7Ccp=6y_wkT6ChZXmZKu08w8w@mail.gmail.com>
On 19 December 2013 08:02, Alessandro Pisa <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 29 October 2013 22:46, Laurence Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The experimental.cssselect packages renders css selectors to xsl:template
> > match compatible location selectors (which are not quite the same as
> > xpaths.) Ideally this would be implemented on top of cssselect, but
> doing so
> > cleanly would probably involve changes to cssselect itself. A worthwhile
> > project if someone has the interest.
> >
>
> In my opinion it would be nice to ship Plone 5 with a newer version of
> lxml, otherwise there is a big chance that developers will get in
> trouble using other libraries.
>
> For example today I stumbled upon an issue with the latest version of
> WeasyPrint requiring lxml 3.
>
> If I am able I would try to work on this at the Cathedral Sprint!
>

Just for the record, the experimental.cssselect refactoring I was
suggesting has nothing to do with the particular lxml version being used.
IIRC lxml 3.x works fine with diazo. We've held back on updating the
version because of lack of windows binary eggs. Unfortunately it looks like
only .exe files are being built now, though it should be possible to repack
a .exe as a .egg without too much work:

See:
http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/lxml-on-Windows-was-Re-Plone-developers-Plone-4-2rc1-soft-released-td7544120.html

Laurence

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