Hi Christian, I've made extensive use of the zip module in an application to manipulate EPUB files that do not have XML source.
As long as zip functionality is replaced, I do not foresee any problems rewriting portions of code where necessary. Cheers, Dan On May 24, 2012, at 16:03, Christian Grün <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > we are interested in your opinion! As one of our main focus is to keep > BaseX small and cute (..sad but true: the BaseX core library already > exceeds 2mb.. ;), we're currently contemplating the removal of two > existing BaseX features, namely.. > > 1) the BaseXHTTP client mode (flag -c). Currently, we offer three > operation modes: default, local, and client [1]. In client mode, all > requests are supposed to be passed on to yet another BaseX server > instance. Currently, however, WebDAV is the only service which is 100% > compatible with this mode, while RESTXQ isn't tailored at all to > handle remote database requests. Instead, we are contemplating on > adding a light-weight XQuery Client API Module, which can then be used > to explicitly address remote BaseX instances from within XQuery > whenever databases are not stored locally anyway. > > 2) the current ZIP Module. The functionality won't disappear, though: > we will replace it with a new, more flexible proposal specified by > Matthias Branter (28msec) and me [2]. > > In a nutshell: who of you is using either 1) or 2) and would run into > big troubles if those features were ousted and replaced with the > approaches we believe are more promising for future development? > > Thanks as usual for your feedback, either to the list (preferred) or in > private, > Christian > > [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server > [2] http://spex.basex.org/index.php?title=ZIP_Module > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
