- From: James Ralston <qralston+ml.www-validator@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:03:59 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Liam Quinn wrote: > Sometime I'll take a look at the RPM docs and give that a go... The > Offline HTMLHelp.com Validator [1] shouldn't be hard to package up > with some RPM knowledge. The online validator will be trickier > because it's dependent on so many Perl modules and other utilities; > perhaps it's worth trying Alien [2] on the Debian package. Beware: RPM has been in flux for a while now, and most of the available documentation is out of date. Until Red Hat has a chance to bring the documentation up to date, your learning curve will probably be a steep one. That being said, I would be interested in seeing a validator packaged as an RPM, because that would be personally convenient for me. ;) II also have a good amount of experience with creating RPMs, so if you can point me to a tarball that I can scoop up, I'd be willing to make an RPM out of it for you. (I might be able to do it in a timely fashion, even...) I'd be very skeptical that Alien could Do The Right Thing. Does it even know how to handle version 3.0.5 (or greater) RPMs yet? -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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