Subject: Re: commit -- libglade support
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 11:22:55 CST
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>
> > we have support for libxml-2, and libglade needs libxml-1 (but, yes, it
> when
> > glade upgrades to libxml-2 it may be a good argument to change the default
> > in the unix build from expat to libxml).
>
> Does anybody else think that this has "really bad idea" written all over
> it? libxml-1 for glade, optionally libxml-2 for AbiWord, optional shared
> expat for AbiWord or static expat in AbiWord? On every Unix platform?
> Maybe I've been in WindowsLand for too long, but this just sounds like a
> disaster waiting to happen to me.
I have previously voiced my opinions on why these types
of cross dependancies are bad ideas. I won't re-iterate,
but know that you are not alone.
Thomas
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