XSF Discussion - 2024-02-01

Field trip.

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Does anyone know what's needed to get xep2md to work? (Or an example of a XEP written in MD that I can work from). I'm approaching an hour into trying to get Lua working on my system and starting to get fed up of it.

lua working? what is it doing?

I generally run old Lua things in an old Debian podman container, sometimes works

Kev, `tools/xep2md.sh ./xep-0313.xml` worksforme without fuss 🤷️

> lua working? what is it doing? First I brew installed it, then I realised it needed luarocks, so I brew installed that. Then I hacked around putting symlinks in so it found luarocks. Then it started complaining about other lua dependencies it needed.

I couldn't find docs anywhere saying what it depended on or how to get those dependencies.

And I ain't a Lua dev :)

oh, did it need luarocks for something?

LuaExpat should be the only dependency

So it shouldn't depend on luarocks?

No

Sure you could use luarocks to install luaexpat

well, is luaexpat in homebrew? I don't know

`xmllint --nonet --noent --loaddtd "$@" | lua5.3 -lluarocks.loader xep2md.lua` doesn't need luarocks? Because it certainly failed for me until I had it.

I guess try droping the `-lluarocks.loader` part then. It's likely there to make it pick up things installed with luarocks

But I still need luaexpat anyway, which I don't seem to have available in brew.

Ok.

An hour in and I'm starting to doubt the advice of the anonymous person who suggested I use the MD stuff to make it easier for me to get Spaces written tonight :)

I might just write in XML and leave this for another day.

Why do you need the XML to MD converter if you're going to write MD?

to get example md

https://cerdale.zash.se/s/gmyECZ7dAxi7M_hwcc1Ft-vQ/xep-template.md

Ta.