Re: my worry about the recent libxml change

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:58:21AM -0800, Darin Adler wrote:
> on 3/23/01 3:57 AM, Daniel Veillard at veillard redhat com wrote:
> 
> > I hope it can too. But if the final question left is:
> > "Shoudl we prefer keeping the existing broken platform over
> > adherance to standard and better I18N support"
> 
> My question is not that. My question is: "Should we fix this problem as part
> of the 1.4 -> 2.0 transition as we originally planned, do it right now for
> some kind of GNOME 1.X release as a follow-on to GNOME 1.4, or reset the
> testing and development clock for GNOME 1.4 so we can redo and test the
> affected code?"

  With the current framework, it seems that getting a 1.4.1 with the
changes is the logical path to follow.

> I am excited about getting this all correct, with appropriate compatibility
> machinery for the incorrect XML files on disk, for the GNOME 2.0 release.
> The approach of using UTF-8 for all the text in memory sounds like the
> perfect approach, and I'm sure we can find some way to make it read the old
> files that claim to be XML, but actually don't comply with XML rules in this
> respect.

  It does already. Libxml-1.8.12 beta test version does this. If there
is no encoding and it finds something non UTF8 and not in the ascii range
it will fallback to an ISO-LAtin-1 mode and convert to UTF8 on the fly.

> On the other hand, I have no interest or willingness to deal with it as a
> "fire drill" right now, just because you finally decided that it was
> worthwhile to make a change to the old libxml at the last minute. If you can
> find hackers willing to work through all the issues and do all the work in
> the next few days, maybe you can make this happen in time to be relevant for
> some GNOME 1.X release. Sounds unlikely to me, though.

  And to me too, though I still want to motivate people to do the switch
in a timely fashion. If for some miracle there is only a few spot to fix
and we can do this in the framework, fine, but i doubt it too and in this
case rolling out a 1.4.1 in a couple of months sounds the sane way to
process.

Daniel

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