Re: Development

>>>>> David Malcolm <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:56 +0200, Sascha Dewald wrote:

>> is Conglomerate still alive?

> FWIW I haven't worked on it since 2005, though looking in git, apart
> from translation work, I see a few code patches here and there:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/conglomerate/log/

Also FWIW it's the best conceptual idea I've ever seen for a document
oriented XML editor (editing naked tags only works for the computer
programming oriented, tree based editor fits XML config and data files,
but doesn't fit textual documents, and WYSIWIG editors looks good in
screen shots, but aren't easy to actually use).

So it would be cool if someone could pick up development on it, or
reimplement the ideas in their programming platform of choice.

I understand from comments Dave have made, that the GUI toolkit and
glib, weren't easy to work with.

But there are some good technology choices in there, e.g. libxml2 (very
fast, and also very good at not messing up the original layout of the
XML, so it won't mess up the formatting of documents that others hand
edit, and won't create huge diffs in version control systems).