Hi
Yesterday, in our MWoffliner 1.8.0 release announcement email, I have
written about the first libzim official binding of the openZIM project:
node-libzim. What I don't have written is that this has been made
possible by the previous release of libzim 4.0.5 a few days ago.
We release usually new versions of the libzim time to time. Releases
which - most of the time - contain minor changes (at least from the user
perspective) and mostly used within our openZIM & Kiwix projects.
Therefore, we don't make a lot of publicity about them. But, this
maintenance release is a bit different.
For the first time, we have released binaries and headers for GNU/Linux
x86 64 bits. You can find them here:
https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/. It is now easy to build a
binding without any hard compilation work, that's what we have done for
node-libzim.
This is only a first step, we need to go further to offer better
opportunities to developers of scrapers. We want in particular to:
* Provide libzim binaries for MacOS (and why not for Windows)
* Provide a libzim binding in Python (we have a lot of scrapers in Python).
Volunteers are really welcome to help make this possible. This would be
extremely helpful to provide more & better scrapers.
Regards
Emmanuel
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