Qixite status

Qixite is still alive. Quite a lot of my time has been eaten by work and studies (I am writting a dissertation for master's degree).

However I have been working on rewritting Qixite using another programming language (Python). This is due to a couple of reasons:

• It seems that Kylix (programming language that Qixite is being written in) is not supported by Borland.
• There seem to be more open source developers who know Python than Kylix.

The program will look slightly differently, however it will support exactly same file format and will provide the same output.

I have been trying to do some Python programming - basically I have updated qixite.py to use xml.dom.minidom to output stuff.

Manuel Siggen wrote:


Just to let you know one more website using Qixite : www.choeurlaudate.org (this site is in french and it's about a choir named 'Laudate' located in Lausanne,Switzerland).

I migrated the site (I was using a bunch of batch files coupled with custom Python scripts to generate static html pages before) to Qixite last week-end, and I'm very happy to have found your very nice program. I slightly modified the default template (removed header and footer horizontal lines, and menu first line) to achieve the current layout.


I have been very very very busy at work all the last month so I have done almost nothing on Qixite front.

But it appears that Debian has released broken libc6 about 3 weeke ago, and the kylix libs are now not working on the latest Debian Unstable.

Yesterday, I have received a report that Qixite is not working on a machine which was upgraded from RedHat to Fedora (can this be the same libc6 related problem?)

Anyway if you encounter problem, where after some upgrade Qixite stops working just try to copy the kylix libs from /usr/lib/kylix3 to /usr/lib/ by issuing the following command:

# cp -d /usr/lib/kylix3/* /usr/lib/

Updated libxml2-pas project files.

Updated French translation contributed by Pepper.

Updated some scripts, Make file.

It will be possible to randomize color scheme (does not seem to be very useful as random colors are horrible)

I have packaged Qixite 0.0.11 today and I should release it tomorrow.

Found a bug in Qixite 0.0.10 - qcs files are not parsed correctly leaving the Qixite without style information.

Started working on possibility to insert a web site element at an arbitrary location - not necessary at the end.

I will release Qixite 0.0.11 as both things are implemented.