Recent blog entries for corran

Spent last night messing around with Python distutils on Macintosh. Learned more than I ever wanted to about path name conventions on the Mac, but overcame some of the problems there. Wrote a new version of the path normalisation routines which should return consistent results.

Current state of distutils on the Mac is that, with a bit of tweaking, it can do standard installs. C Compiler support needs serious work, though.

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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!