The Kode project is up for adoption by a new maintainer. While I still do care about the project, I don't have the time to do much substantial work on it. It has not seen a lot of activity recently other than merging the occasional pull request. A new maintainer is welcome to change that. Taking over maintainership for only one of the components would also be appreciated and already make a difference.
Kode consists of three tools:
- kxml_compiler, a code generator for XML parsing and writing
- kxforms, a graphical user interface for editing XML data
They make use of two libraries:
- schema, a library for reading XML Schema
- libkode, a library supporting C++ code generation
kxml_compiler is in use by a number of projects. They rely on the code generation and schema library. The code generation is fun, the schema parsing is the harder part. It is an interesting problem to solve, though.
The compilers work quite reliably, but they are limited in scope, and only implement a subset of what is possible in XML. Extending this to more use cases is probably the biggest topic for further development.
kxforms is more of an experiment. It only uses the schema library. The code is a bit dated, and would need some update to a recent version of Qt. It is a quite interesting project to play around with.
XML was hot when we started Kode. Today we would likely use JSON for many use cases instead. Expanding Kode to cover JSON as well would be a quite exciting next step.
Expanding the test coverage and maybe introducing a CI would add some more peace of mind and make the job of the maintainer easier. So this might be a step to take before tackling bigger changes.
But in the end it's up to you, the new maintainer, to decide on what's next and what suits your needs and the needs of other users best. I'm curious to see what the future holds for Kode.
Category: Programming
Contact: Cornelius Schumacher [email protected]