From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T01:49:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] libxml and libxslt CVS

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:38:36 -0800, Trans wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am happy to announce that the XML:Tools project on Rubyforge is now
> hosting CVS repository for Ruby's bindings to the libxml2 and libxslt
> gnu libs. If anyone is interested in working with these libs please let
> me know and I can provide development access. The project page is
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/xml-tools/.
> 
> For the record, this code appearently hasn't had a "home" for some
> time, so I have simply taken it upon myself to give it one. I have
> tried contacting Sean Chittenden, the last maintainer, but have not
> received a response (I hope he is okay.) So I assume what I am doing
> here is acceptable, and hopefuly of value to the community.
> 

I talked to Sean some time ago about this; he wasn't using ruby, and had
no desire to maintain the libraries.  I'm glad someone picked these up; I
hate maintaining debian packages w/ dead upstreams.