[MKSearch-dev] Week 1 round-up

[Phil Shaw]

Some notes on this week's progress. Thanks for your help setting up 
the Subversion and MK Doc sites.

Best regards,

Phil

Monday
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Made a first round survey of the licence terms for key development 
software at https://svn.mkdoc.com/mksearch/doc/licence/index.htm. 
This includes some basic notes on potential RDF processors. Jena 
looks out of the question because the licence terms are ambiguous and 
seem to be compromised by the Apache licence. However, Sesame from 
Open RDF looks a promising candidate, more research required.

http://www.openrdf.org/

Got my Windows shell operating with Subversion.

Wednesday
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More detailed investigation and configuration of a GNU Java 
development environment with the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) and the 
GNU byte code interpreter gij. Installed the latest version of Apache 
Ant and created a first draft build script with properties and 
filters files. Tested with the Sun Java interpreter.

Ant requires a JAXP-compliant XML parser to run under Cygwin and my 
first attempt to make the GNU ClaspathX JAXP package was not 
successful. Reported the problem to the project mailing list.

JAXP will also be a critical package for parsing (X)HTML to RDF.

Got my Cygwin shell operating with Subversion.

Friday
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Followed-up feedback from the ClasspathX mailing list to investigate 
the JAXP make problems further. Identified some further complications 
and reported back. I will probably require assistance patching the 
make file for Cygwin once we have isolated the source of the problem.