Geoff Burling wrote:
> Unfortunately, I have not seen any actitivity on the mailing list for it.
> (Or is everyone who is working on it keeping their communications to
> personal email?)
Nope, there is a lot of activity on the plucker-dev list.
Our mascot is 'dead' (it is a rubberchicken;), but the project
is very much alive. We are working very hard to be able to make
a new release soon.
Some of the things we have added since the last release:
- support for compression of the documents
- multi-database support (i.e. you could have one database
with documents/web pages that rarely change, and then use
another database for your everyday web pages)
- scrollbars
- a parser written in python, so we can get rid of the awk
scripts
- better support for Windows users (like you would care :)
- LaTeX and HTML versions of the documentation
These two are untested since the parsers don't support them
yet:
- support for named anchors (<A HREF="...#name">)
- a few new 'function codes' (margins, alignment of text)
to give the parser writers more freedom to replicate the
original document.
There is also ongoing work to add an installation script
to make it easier for the average user to get it running
and also a perl version of the parser + some kind of server
solution (like Avantgo.com). I'm the maintainer of the Palm
application, so don't ask me to explain how this server
solution will work ;-)
The size of the viewer is still very modest, about 16K.
And the compression will decrease the database a lot
(my 720K database decreased to 420K).
Anyone interested in trying out the latest development
version could get it from our cvs repository:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/dev -z3 login
and then just hit ENTER at the password prompt.
But wait until Friday/Saturday when I have been able to
check in my latest changes to the code.
The documentation is not updated, but it shouldn't be too
hard to get it working. Let me know if you run into any
problems and I will try to help you out.
/Mike
