Re: Moving libxml2 and libxslt to external dependencies

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:07:04AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 04:41 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:24:57AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 19:41 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > > > I can't speak for libxml++ maintainer, but given that libxml++ depends
> > > > on Glib::ustring, it should stay at most in the bindings.\
> > > 
> > > That's a strange logic. External dependencies should be allowed to use,
> > > for instance, glib.
> > > 
> > > If libxml is removed from the GNOME Platform then libxml++ should be
> > > removed too. (I'm the maintainer).
> > 
> >   That's also  a strange logic to me. libxml2 gets out of the GNOME platform
> > because I think it comes with the OS and its updates are really OS related
> > not GNOME releases related. If that's the case for libxml++ too then this
> > makes sense, but I'm not sure it's true at this point.
> 
> The GNOME Platform Bindings are meant to wrap the GNOME Development
> Platform.

<irony>
Oh I though it was about helping GNOME developers write applications in
other languages than C, sorry I misunderstood the ultimate goal !
</irony>

Daniel


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