Re: Prototype: AbiWord using libgsf

From: Francis James Franklin (f.j.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 27 2003 - 09:53:49 EST

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    On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 01:26 PM, Michael D. Pritchett wrote:
    > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >
    >> In reality, we're trading one set of dependencies for
    >> another, while also ditching a bunch of UT_XXX code.
    >>
    >> Gone: libole2, glib, expat, libiconv
    >> New: libgsf, glib-2.0, libxml2
    >>
    >
    > This sounds like a bit of slight of hand.
    >
    > libiconv doesn't go away as glib-2.0 requires it, or maybe I don't
    > understand something rudimentary here.

    You understand right... libiconv is still just as much a requirement
    as ever...

    It's worth the switch from expat to libxml2, however, even though
    expat is so much less of a hassle. And glib-2.0 isn't too painful a
    requirement, given how useful it is.

    2p, Frank

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