From adaed81659c0461bc6f697268fd6f79ab46db7ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaud Spiwack Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:08:11 +0200 Subject: Discontinued xml plugin: improve the README. More information, less pmp. --- plugins/xml/README | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'plugins/xml') diff --git a/plugins/xml/README b/plugins/xml/README index cf5b3e0f4..e3bcdaf05 100644 --- a/plugins/xml/README +++ b/plugins/xml/README @@ -1,4 +1,15 @@ -Here was the XML plugin. It is now defunct. May its soul rest in peace. +The xml export plugin for Coq has been discontinued for lack of users: +it was most certainly broken while imposing a non-negligible cost on +Coq development. Its purpose was to give export Coq's kernel objects +in xml form for treatment by external tools. -If you were looking for it, try contacting Claudio Sacerdoti-Coen, its original -author, at sacerdot@cs.unibo.it. He had a working version in the past. +If you are looking for such a tool, you may want to look at commit +7cfe0a70eda671ada6a46cd779ef9308f7e0fdb9 responsible for the deletion +of this plugin (for instance, git checkout +7cfe0a70eda671ada6a46cd779ef9308f7e0fdb9^ including the "^", will lead +you to the last commit before the xml plugin was deleted). + +Bear in mind, however, that the plugin was not working properly at the +time. You may want instead to write to the original author of the +plugin, Claudio Sacerdoti-Coen at sacerdot@cs.unibo.it. He has a +stable version of the plugin for an old version of Coq. -- cgit v1.2.3