Subject: Re: commit -- libglade support
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 15:44:15 CST
At 12:22 PM 2/8/01 -0500, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>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.
Ditto. I like being flexible and enabling choices, but two choices of XML
libraries and linkage are bad enough. Three is ridiculous.
Paul,
motto -- more is not always better
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