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Can Saxonica provide the executables/binaries of Transform/Query/Validate command line tools of the SaxonC 12 editions for download?

Added by Martin Honnen 3 days ago

For some reasons, for SaxonC, you provide the Python packages for each platform but you don't publish any executables/binaries of the Transform/Query (and for SaxonC EE) Validate command line tools, only the runtime libaries and the source code for the command line tools

I kind have gotten accustomed to use SaxonC instead of Saxon Java from the command line for XSLT and XQuery, as SaxonC seems to start up/run much faster from the command line than Saxon Java.

I wonder whether Saxonica couldn't build the command tools for the various platforms (like is done for Python) (using Github or whatever build platform is behind that) and then provide the SaxonC command line tools as downloadable/installable binaries/executables.

It would make adoption of SaxonC for some users (i.e. command line users) much easier than having to compile themselves.

Is it worth opening a feature issue for this or is there the idea to not have SaxonC "compete" with Saxon Java as the command line tool of Saxon, so the hurdle to have to compile is intentional?


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RE: Can Saxonica provide the executables/binaries of Transform/Query/Validate command line tools of the SaxonC 12 editions for download? - Added by Matt Patterson 2 days ago

This is something we're actively exploring as we look at improving the build process and setup for Saxon C more generally.

Obviously, I'm not making any commitment here - one of the things it would require is adding more complexity to the number and variety of release artifacts, and that gets even more complex for macOS and Windows, not least with upcoming changes to macOS that make distributing unsigned binaries effectively impossible.

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