Apologies for filing this bug report, While filing reports on a series of libraries I am working on packaging, I forgot to check and see that serd is already in the debian repositories. This bug can be summarily closed.
Jeremy On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Jeremy Salwen <jeremysal...@gmail.com>wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jeremy Salwen <jeremysal...@gmail.com> > > > * Package name : serd-0 > Version : 0.4.0 > Upstream Author : David Robillard <d...@drobilla.net> > * URL : http://drobilla.net/software/serd > * License : ISC License > Programming Lang: C > Description : A lightweight C library for RDF syntax > > Serd is a lightweight C library for RDF syntax which supports reading > and writing Turtle and NTriples. > > Serd is not intended to be a swiss-army knife of RDF syntax, but rather > is suited to resource limited or performance critical applications, or > situations where a simple reader/writer with minimal dependencies is > ideal (e.g. in LV2 hosts or plugins). > > Features > > * Free: Serd is released under an extremely liberal license, which > means it is Free Software, Open Source, and free for use by both open > and proprietary projects. > > * Small: Serd is implemented in under 3000 lines1 of standard C code. > On the developer’s 64-bit Debian system, it compiles to a shared library > well under 64 KiB (40 KiB with -Os), which depends only on libc. For > comparison, on the same system raptor is 417KiB and libxml2 is 2.1MiB > (making serdi roughly 6.5 and 32 times smaller, respectively). > > * Portable and Dependency Free: Serd uses only the C standard library, > and has no external dependencies, making it a lightweight dependency in > every sense. > > * Fast and Lightweight: Serd (and the included serdi tool) can be used > to stream abbreviated Turtle (unlike many other tools which can not > stream since they must first build an internal model to abbreviate). In > other words, Serd can re-serialise an unbounded amount of Turtle using a > fixed amount of memory, preserving the abbreviations in the input. > > * Conformant and Well-Tested: Serd is written to the Turtle, NTriples > and URI specifications, and includes a comprehensive test suite which > includes all the normative examples from the Turtle specification, all > the “normal” examples from the URI specification, and several additional > tests added specifically for Serd. The test suite has over 90% code > coverage (by line), and runs with zero memory errors or leaks. > > >
