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 christian.gruen@gmail.com 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..
- 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.
- 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 BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk