Publish `tidy-html5` to package managers

[mcandre]

I'm not sure how long before the original tidy maintainers decide to merge in our HTML5 support.

In the mean time, could we publish our own binary (tidy-html5) and package (also tidy-html5), such as on the Debian, RedHat, Homebrew, and Chocolatey repositories?

[balthisar]

Given that the last commit to the official repo on SF is more than five years old, I think that the original maintainers have let the project wither. This repo, despite the 'experimental' monicker is released under the auspices of the W3C, so it's probably about as official as it will get.

I would suggest that we remove the "experimental" description from this repo.

Clearly this repo would benefit from having a more closely tied maintainer, but (a) I'm not sure if w3c is looking for one, and (b) no one seems to have volunteered.

There are several useful pending pull requests that I've merged into my own fork (not sure if I've pushed them up yet), but I'm not sure that we're enough of a community to vet the contributions at a level that the original devs would. I guess time will tell (current Balthisar Tidy uses most of the non-merged PR's currently, and I'm not getting bug reports related to Tidy).

As for *nix distros, taking Ubuntu for example, it sounds like you'd like to see newer Tidy in, say, Main or Universe, but that's a decision someone at Canonical makes. Of course you can can always maintain your own distribution and even set up your own repo, but that's not much of an advantage. I don't see that w3c has it's own Ubuntu repo, and I don't know remember enough about other Linux distros these days to recall their own particular distribution mechanisms.

I don't immediately see a Tidy for Mac Homebrew -- maybe I could contribute there, or feel free to contribute! It looks like there's a maintainer for Macports, but stable is at least a couple of years old.

Ubuntu 14.04 (Main or Universe, didn't check) installs "HTML Tidy for Linux released on 25 March 2009"

And Mac OS X Mavericks is even worse: "HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 31 October 2006 - Apple Inc. build 15.12"

Any of use could distribute an updated binary, but we're not the WC3, we're just some guys on the internet.

[sierkb]

It looks like there's a maintainer for Macports, but stable is at least a couple of years old.

See https://trac.macports.org/changeset/96009

And Mac OS X Mavericks is even worse: "HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 31 October 2006 - Apple Inc. build 15.12"

See Apple Radar ticket: rdar://6376494 resp. Open Radar ticket 6376494: http://openradar.appspot.com/6376494

[jyasskin]

Homebrew is waiting for a "stable" release: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#17082

[balthisar]

As soon as we have roadmap we can make plans for a stable release. Hopefully package managers will be able to update their distributions then.

[geoffmcl]

With develop-500 branch available for testing I hope we can consider a release in short order, perhaps 1-2 weeks...

When we reach that point, I know very little about how to encourage package manager to post the latest, so need help, pointers on this...

And I know less about where, how to setup a MAC OS X release... where, what, etc...

And then there is a question of where to put Windows binaries? And what binaries to put there, aside from the obvious 32-bit and 64-bit favours? But...

So again would appreciate discussion on this, but perhaps all this should be moved to the public-htacg list, or all lists?

[mcandre]

Windows packages go on Chocolatey!

https://chocolatey.org/

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Geoff McLane notifications@github.com
wrote:

With develop-500 branch available for testing I hope we can consider a
release in short order, perhaps 1-2 weeks...

When we reach that point, I know very little about how to encourage
package manager to post the latest, so need help, pointers on this...

And I know less about where, how to setup a MAC OS X release... where,
what, etc...

And then there is a question of where to put Windows binaries? And what
binaries to put there, aside from the obvious 32-bit and 64-bit favours?
But...

So again would appreciate discussion on this, but perhaps all this should
be moved to the public-htacg list, or all lists?

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[geoffmcl]

Thanks, will try to check out https://chocolatey.org/ but requires I 'join'...
Is any tidy contributor already a member, and could handle this?
And what about other windows release site?

[balthisar]

Reference material.

This is definitely a goal of the project and I'll look into it a lot closer once 5.0.0 releases.

[deviantintegral]

Once we have a stable release I'll be glad to redo my Homebrew PR so we can get it in there.

[pedromorgan]

Is this project intending to use cpack ?

[balthisar]

@deviantintegral, homebrew would be great for us Mac users.
@pedromorgan, yes, cpack.

[pedromorgan]

A quick cpack patch for linux
#174

[thierry-FreeBSD]

Port (and package) for FreeBSD: http://www.freshports.org/www/tidy-html5/