Re: Zotero Packaging Request

[mikadoZero]

Raghav given Pierre's assessment I just wanted to suggest some potential
Zotero alternatives.

They would require using a document compiler like latex, groff or
pandoc.  I do not know if the following have the feature set that you
are looking for.  I have not used these myself but they would be what I
would look at using if I needed to create citations or bibliographies.

For use with latex:
* biber
* texlive-bibtex

For use with pandoc:
* ghc-pandoc-citeproc

For use with emacs/org:
* emacs-biblio
* emacs-org-ref

I do not know if `refer` is included in the `groff` packaged.

As an aside it is interesting to see that `emacs-zotxt` is packaged.


Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> Hi Raghav,
>
> I'm very sorry, I looked a little too fast (did I look at the wrong
> program? :p), and Zotero is actually the very opposite of what it
> thought, it's a hard one.
>
> It turns out that Zotero needs... NodeJS (!) and XULrunner (!!!).
>
> As long as Guix won't have a recursive importer for NodeJS, it will be
> a big hassle to package Zotero.
>
> Besides, isn't XULrunner deprecated?
>
> More details there:
> https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client
>
> Sorry, I'm out :(