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Package Details: xidel 0.9.9.20230617.8842.e14a96920e01-1
Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/xidel.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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Package Base: | xidel |
Description: | A command line tool to download and extract data from html/xml pages |
Upstream URL: | http://videlibri.sourceforge.net/xidel.html |
Licenses: | GPL |
Submitter: | levitsky |
Maintainer: | levitsky |
Last Packager: | levitsky |
Votes: | 18 |
Popularity: | 0.002676 |
First Submitted: | 2014-11-24 20:39 (UTC) |
Last Updated: | 2023-08-19 22:22 (UTC) |
Dependencies (2)
- glibc (glibc-gitAUR, glibc-linux4AUR, glibc-widevineAUR, glibc-eacAUR)
- openssl (openssl-gitAUR, openssl-staticAUR) (optional) – for HTTPS connections
Latest Comments
m040601 commented on 2024-02-15 04:08 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-15 04:55 (UTC) by m040601)
Some notes to everyone, and a call to action to the maintainer of this "xidel" PKGBUILD
I, personally, find that confusing and unecessary.
He also maintains a couple of "mirrors"
Again, in my personal opinion, frankenstein confusing mirrors, https://gitlab.com/benito/xidel, https://github.com/benibela/xidel/
Arch users who do want to use xidel and do insist on building from source, can always use,
Remember that modern xml and html parsing is a complicated task and can be a security risk.
Anyway, and since I am also in need for a tool like xidel, these might be worthy considering. There are many other well maintained, official, modern alternatives, that can do similarj job
Official packages, "htmlq", "hq", and the classics "xmlstarlet" and "xmllint (libxml2).
On the AUR, "pup" (used to be official) etc....
@levitsky why havent you done this yet ?
It is only confusing users.
You either,
Merge your "xidel" PKGBUILD with the "xidel-bin" PKGBUILD. And start collaborating with fbrennan. And remove your "xidel" from the AUR.
Or,
you do keep your "xidel", but you do the work to turn it into a real "build from source" PKGBUILD.
Your are indeed the first one to have ever made a xidel in the AUR:
But fbrennan then later, took the name "xidel-bin". That's the name you should have chosen in 2014.
Your PKGBUILD "xidel" was always wrongly named.
It is not a package that downloads a released source archive https://...tar.gz version and then compiles it. It is a package that downloads a released precompiled binary https://..tar.gz and just simply copies it to /usr/bin.
It should never have been named "xidel" in the first place.
This is according to the AUR guidelins in the wiki (xyz, xyz-git, xyz-bin etc)
Please collaborate , and avoid reduplicating efforts. Instead of confusing Arch users.
Thanks in advance.
FabioLolix commented on 2023-08-19 22:45 (UTC)
Hello Lev thanks for your reply, orphan request revoked, it is quite late for me now, we'll discuss in the next days, for the moment leave the things as they are :)
levitsky commented on 2023-08-19 22:28 (UTC) (edited on 2023-08-19 22:29 (UTC) by levitsky)
@FabioLolix Sorry for not responding to your comment earlier. I was looking at sourceforge downloads and didn't find the sources there. Also I was using the checksums sourceforge provided because that seemed more reliable than generating my own.
I see I can start building from Github but the author doesn't mark these "nightly" 0.9.9 releases there in any way so then it would make sense to do it in a -git package? As far as I understand, xidel stopped at 0.9.8 officially.
Given the above and your orphan request, I suggest that maybe you just submit a xidel-git package and I merge this one into xidel-bin?
FabioLolix commented on 2023-05-13 12:50 (UTC)
Hello,
iegubkin commented on 2021-06-24 03:08 (UTC)
Xidel 0.9.9 (20210529.7880.e0cb7e033b4b) is broken: https://github.com/benibela/xidel/issues/70
xidel-0.9.9.20210620.7908.1f19357dcdf2 has been released.
chovy commented on 2021-01-29 21:09 (UTC)
new version 0.9.9