At one point my [[Atomgen]] script used Amara, because I liked the
bindery interface.  However, I was having [problems][] with wide
Unicode characters, so I've updated Atomgen to use more widely
supported XML libraries ([lxml][]'s [objectify][] API is similar to
Amara's bindery).  For future reference, I'll recount my history with
Amara.

I started off using Sylvain Hellegouarch's [Atomixlib][], which is
based on [Amara2][] or [ElementTree][].  However, Sylvain seems to be
falling behind as ElementTree and Amara continue to evolve, so I
rewrote Atomgen to run off [Amara2][] directly, since Amara's
*bindery* interface is wonderful.  Things worked fine when I was
installing Amara via `easy_install`:

    sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
    easy_install --prefix=~ amara

but I ran into the [wide Unicode][] issues mentioned above when I
tried to install Amara2 using Tiziano Müller's [dev-zero][]
[overlay][] (Gentoo only packages Amara-1.2.0.2 by default).

The Amara + [expat][] + wide Unicode is discussed in [Gentoo bug
306655][306655].

[problems]: http://trac.xml3k.org/ticket/69
[lxml]: http://codespeak.net/lxml/
[objectify]: http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify.html
[Atomixlib]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/atomixlib/
[Amara]: http://xml3k.org/Amara/
[Amara2]: http://xml3k.org/Amara2/
[ElementTree]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/elementtree/
[wide Unicode]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0261/
[dev-zero]: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=dev/dev-zero.git
[overlay]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
[expat]: http://expat.sourceforge.net/
[306655]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306655

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