On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 01:31:27PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > just in case that anyone out there feels bored and useless, here's a > list of things you can do to help us with GIMP-1.3 even if you can't > (or don't want to) code. The items appear in no particular order. > > > (2) There are some files that list contributors and plug-in > maintainers (namely the files PLUGIN_MAINTAINERS and > tools/contributors). I'd like to keep this information in one XML > file that is then used for several purposes: To extract info to > display in the about dialog and to handle maintainance of > plug-ins and bug-reports. The XML approach would have several > advantages. It allows to specify an encoding, so we could use > UTF-8 to be able to show contributor names in the way they are > written natively. We can add all sort of meta information like > email address, bugzilla account, CVS account and what parts of > the code the specific person has contributed to or maintains. > I'd welcome if someone could sit down and come up with a proposal > how such an XML file could be organized. You don't need to write > a DTD, an example would do. The PLUGIN_MAINTAINERS has this ----------- NAME : AlienMap AUTHOR : Daniel Cotting (cotting@xxxxxxxxxx, http://www.mygale.org/~cotting) MAINTAINER : SIZE : 74.0 kB in 1 file (only C files counted) COMMENT : ----------- That could be <plugin> <name>AlienMap</name> <author> <name>Daniel Cotting</name> <email>cotting@xxxxxxxxxx</email> <homepage>http://www.mygale.org/~cotting</homepage> </author> <maintainer> <!-- There is no a maintainer, but the structure will be the same that author --> </maintainer> <files amount="1"> <size scale="kB">74.0</size> <comment>only C files counted</comment> </files> <comment><!-- blank --></comment> </plugin> If you need help with a XSLT I will help you pleased :-) -- Ayose Cazorla León Debian GNU/Linux - setepo
