Subject: Re: PATCH: Compilation with LIBXML2 was broken
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 21:14:43 CST
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:52:41PM +0100, Frodo Looijaard wrote:
>
> Why do we try to support both expat and libxml2? I choose libxml2
> myself because I have it in shared form, on the theory that this
> will cut down on the size of the AbiWord image. But, unless there
> is a good reason why we support both (do they not run on all
> platforms?) I think we should resolve which one we want to use.
We support them both because we have people who want to use both.
It's now possible to use expat as a shared library as well. We
basically have to support expat because we need to distribute an XML
parser so that systems that don't have one (BeOS, Win32 [1]) can
compile AbiWord. And we support LibXML since people want to use it.
[1] Win32 actually has an XML parser DLL, but no one has ever tried to
get AbiWord to link against it. Mike?
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