From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: online conversion support from xsd to rng? Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:18:37 -0500 Message-ID: <87hbep8psi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291742341 30195 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2010 17:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 18:18:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ1Bo-00042X-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:18:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ1Bn-0005oG-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ1BY-0005jy-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ1BX-0004ke-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]:36626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ1BX-0004kT-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014034.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oB7HIbg1001823 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DF9FC160AEB; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:18:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:37:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133509 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: > This could presumably be run online somewhere and provide the needed > service for Emacs, more conveniently than having to install the program > locally. (Trang is a free software Java program compilable with GCJ) > > This raises a number of questions: > > - do we want Emacs to have this type of facility at all? (I would say > yes, provided we solve a number of problems) > > - how do we ensure this backend(and future other backends) are free > software? > > - what would the backend interface look like? Maybe we could generate > ELPA packages on the fly? Why can't we simply include every common schema in etc/schema/? That directory haven't been updated (AFAICT) since 23.1, so if you want to update and/or add to it, please feel free (we just need the specification to be free; see etc/schema/README).