Re sisu: more work and testing is required. It should all be fixable, and my experience is that once fixed, it stays fixed a long time. But as with all software, maintenance is required, especially when the programming language it is based on goes through major changes.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:45 PM Ralph Amissah <ralph.amis...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:19 PM Ralph Amissah <ralph.amis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Sorry for the current state of sisu in Debian (and to some extent in Ruby >> more generally)... >> >> I have a version of sisu working with ruby 3.0 & 3.1 (it can be run >> straight from the command line) ... but not made a deb of and built with >> Debian dependencies. Certainly the latex/pdf output has not been tested. >> Also there remain a couple of issues to check. >> > > To clarify, the version that runs "straight from the command line" is run > without special installation straight out of the project ./bin directory > against the document(s) to be generated ... > This currently works for the html and epub at least (where ruby is the > only dependency) ... latex to pdf should work once the positions of the > latex.stys that are depended on are sorted out correctly. (not even the > ruby gem is update at this moment). > > See below > > >> >> I am not against Debian-live shipping documentation independently but >> will try to make sure sisu works as it should, (though I may request help >> packaging it once at that point). >> > > I apologize, l have somehow been ignorant of the fact that sisu was still > in use by the debian-live project. I think knowing this would have made > me spend a bit more time maintaining it. There has been nothing to stop > me from knowing, so it is my fault. Sorry. > > You may follow up on my progress here or directly with me. >> > > Re: sisu Progress has been slow. Current state in the upstream branch on > https://git.sisudoc.org/projects/sisu/ > A note on the D (dlang) version: > I have a D (dlang) version that I have been actively developing under the > name spine or sisu-spine. > (which is considerably more up to date in some of the output it produces > than sisu but I have not sorted out how I wish to release it and am content > to develop it.) > > >> Thanks, >> Ralph Amissah >> >>
