[pcap-ng-format] [tcpdump-workers] New Version Notification for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02.txt

[Guy Harris]

On Oct 17, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:

> Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers at lists.tcpdump.org> wrote:
> 
>> So is there anything we do to arrange that the "Current committed
>> version as ..." links on the GitHub repository home page work again?
> 
> Yes, there is a travis-ci process that generated the gh-pages.
> I haven't done that yet.  It was slightly involved before, but it has gotten
> significantly easier I'm told.  Travis-CI does the work.
> Oops, it is now "Circle" (CI) that is going it:
> 
>   https://github.com/martinthomson/i-d-template/blob/main/doc/REPO.md
>   _Automatic Update for Editor's Copy with Circle CI_

So, once that's done, there will be .xml files in the repository, built from the .md files?  (File, currently, but at some point I'll convert the pcap spec to  kramedown-rfc2629 as well.)

>> Or is there some site that will run kramdown-rfc2629 on a Markdown file
>> and run xml2rfc on the result, along the lines of what
>> xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org does?  I haven't gotten
> 
>> https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/experimental.html#kramdown
> 
>> to work - I tried pasting
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pcapng/pcapng/master/draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng.md
>> into the URL box, selecting "Window", and hitting Submit, but it didn't
>> seem to work, it just popped up a blank
> 
> generally, "gem install kramedown-rfc2629" is all you need to do.

Yes, that worked for me on macOS Catalina.  (I'm not sure whether Big Sur ships with Ruby or not; Apple wants to stop shipping the scripting language interpreters - or, at least, the ones not required by Single UNIX Spec conformance - probably because they don't want to be responsible for making it work *and* for keeping it up to date.  That's the tradeoff with "OS vendor provides third-party software" - the good news is it's there without having to download it, the bad news is that you may not be getting the latest version.)

But that means that I can generate the .xml files on my machine, for checking purposes.  I was trying to find a Web server that could be handed a URL for a kramedown-rfc2629 document and that would return an HTML/PDF/txt version of the document, for display in the browser, similar to what the xml2rfc server does for URLs pointing to an xml2rfc XML document, so that we could add links to README.me.