Re: pkg/51903

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51903; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/51903
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:53:22 -0500

 On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 16:45 +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >Â Â Looks like textproc/sablotron itself was last updated in 2005, so it
 >Â Â may be time to patch it. Or maybe just kill it off.
 
 According to a book from 2002 ("XML Primer Plus" by Nicholas Chase),
 Perl's "XML::Sablotron is the most mature and widely-packaged" XSLT
 module. I imagine that's why the author of the package I'm working on
 preferred it over XML::LibXSLT. Nowadays, that statement isn't really
 relevant, e.g. the pkgsrc DESCR for XML::LibXSLT states "Performance is
 currently about twice that of XML::Sablotron." (That statement's also
 possibly out of date.)
 
 Support in other downstream packagers seems mixed. Debian removed the
 Sablotron library in 2011. Fedora doesn't support it either. FreeBSD
 still provides Sablotron itself, but deleted the associated Perl
 modules in 2013.