unoconv is a tool that converts between any document format supported by
LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
Example of how to convert an .odt file to .pdf:
unoconv -f pdf some-file.odt
Homepage: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/
Implementation notes:
unoconv must use the same python version as libreoffice (unless it will
not be able to load the pyuno module from libreoffice). And because we
recently switched to libreoffice 4.x, which uses python3, I had to
include unoconv-python3.patch. The patch comes from upstream unoconv.git
repo, so it will be included in the next release.
BaseX is a very fast and light-weight, yet powerful XML database and
XPath/XQuery processor, including support for the latest W3C Full Text
and Update Recommendations. It supports large XML instances and offers a
highly interactive front-end (basexgui). Apart from two local standalone
modes, BaseX offers a client/server architecture.
Homepage: http://basex.org/
Implementation notes:
- I'm using the pre-built java package (because it's simple)
- I copied the basex.svg icon file from the Ubuntu package because I
couldn't find it anywhere else. It's 9.3 KiB.
Give dstat access to the "curses" module in the Python standard library
so that it can color its output. This is similar to how other distros
package it (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu).
Without this patch buildout will copy eggs from the nix store into the
./eggs directory and then try to compile them. This fails because they
are read only. This patch changes the behaviour to create symlinks to
eggs available in the nix store instead of copying them, and not to
try to compile the eggs in the store. To differentiate this from the
default buildout (which may be provided otherwise e.g. as a
dependency) the executable is renamed to buildout-nix.
This can be used in conjuntion with myEnvFun to create development
environments which make use of the python modules available in the
store while downloading any additional required eggs. A pleasant side
effect is that you can conveniently replace the symlink with a copy
for debugging purposes.
Thanks to @phreedom for reporting the broken URL used fetchgit, which
was because I deleted my fork repository. Fortunately, in the meantime
other forks got to a more "working" state and being more actively
maintained than my fork. So that's why I switched using @nemerle's fork
now, as it is the the most usable one out there, at least in our case.
One stupid thing I've done in the first place was to use "1.0pre" as the
version and the fork uses "alpha 0.3.2", so it essentially is some kind
of a "downgrade" if you just look at the version.
Fortunately, peer-unreviewed research based on guesswork has shown that
I'm the only one using Boomerang on NixOS, so this shouldn't have a big
impact on the other non-existent users.
Also, this drops dependencies on boehmgc and cppunit, because building
with either one or both will fail at the moment.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
