Subject: Re: commit -- libglade support
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 12:49:50 CST
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:03:57PM -0100, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> ka?kada, berods Kt, 2001-02-08 10:29-0600, Sam TH ra??:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:34:36AM -0500, Thomas Briggs wrote:
> > >
> > > > Additionally, the glade runtime has a dependency on libxml. Given
> > > > this, it seems there wouldn't be a point to still having expat.
> > >
> > > There will always be a point in having expat - I for one have no desire
> > > to port libxml to Windows when expat works just fine.
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, should have been more specific. I mean that Unix would no
> > longer need expat.
>
> libglade depends on libxml1, while abiword uses libxml2. libxml1-dev and
> libxml2-dev are conflicting packages (hm.... they were until today when
> libxml 2.3.0 was released). I couldn't compile abiword with both gnome and
> libxml2 because of this. Using two different libraries for the same thing in
> gnome is ... at least strange.
If the two versions really conflict, that's bad. That would mean we
couldn't link against anything that used libxml until GNOME 2,
basically. That would mean no glade for a while, definitely. I'll
look into this.
sam th
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