Dear Uwe,
Did CRAN ever reach a decision here with a suitable volunteer (or group of
volunteers) ? The state of XML came up again recently on mastodon, and it
might be helpful to share an update if there is one.
Thanks, as always, for all you and the rest of the team do for CRAN.
Cheers, Dirk
Dear Uwe Ligges,
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:50:44 +0100
Uwe Ligges wrote:
> So we are looking for a person volunteering to take over 'XML'.
> Please let us know if you are interested.
Unless someone else has been discussing this with CRAN in private or
had a package depending on XML and was plannin
On 23.01.2024 01:03, Lluís Revilla wrote:
Dear Uwe and the CRAN team,
Many thanks for maintaining the package for so long (>10 years!).
I see the latest changes are in some internal C code related to
updating the libxml2 library.
In CRAN's experience, is this the highest time consuming task?
Some thoughts for what the next steps could be:
I could be wrong, but I doubt that there's someone out there that
wants to pick up 'XML' and start developing it beyond keeping the
lights on. I also think the community agrees that 'xml2' is the
recommended package to use for XML-related needs. If
Re: guidance on how to migrate from XML to xml2, these notes from Daniel Nüst
may be helpful: https://gist.github.com/nuest/3ed3b0057713eb4f4d75d11bb62f2d66.
Best wishes,
Heather
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Emmanuel Blondel wrote:
> if XML is deprecated, then what would be the choice for a
On 24.01.2024 15:59, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM Uwe Ligges
wrote:
Dear package developers,
the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto
maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'.
Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrat
On 24.01.2024 16:38, Emmanuel Blondel wrote:
if XML is deprecated, then what would be the choice for a package
maintainer? Move to xml2 probably at some point I assume
I use XML in the R packages I've been developing. For some of them, I
started before CRAN started being the maintainer, and
if XML is deprecated, then what would be the choice for a package
maintainer? Move to xml2 probably at some point I assume
I use XML in the R packages I've been developing. For some of them, I
started before CRAN started being the maintainer, and before xml2
inception. The thing is that XML fu
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM Uwe Ligges
wrote:
>
> Dear package developers,
>
> the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto
> maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'.
> Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrate
> to other packages for reading X
Dear Uwe and the CRAN team,
Many thanks for maintaining the package for so long (>10 years!).
I see the latest changes are in some internal C code related to
updating the libxml2 library.
In CRAN's experience, is this the highest time consuming task?
I have some questions about how the maintenan
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