Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:20:40 -0300 From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org> To: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021003222102.90460.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> In-Reply-To: <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org> <20021002130551.A14518@FreeBSD.org> <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:00:06AM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote: > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 22:05, Juli Mallett wrote: > [...] > > I seem to remember a discussion with Robert Watson and myself about a year > > ago where we discussed some sort of classy parser in libc for the MAC > > config files, etc., and we discussed XML at some point... Having libexpat > > around makes it a lot easier for people who need to do config files, or > > pass around data structures. [snip] > I believe the decision to put expat -in a wise manner- in the base system will > show that FreeBSD is keeping up with major movements and that it will make > FreeBSD more attractive to potential users. Well, be careful when addressing this part of "potential users". What I understood from this thread is that expat is being imported to server OUR tools. The tools that lie under src/ CVS repo. Which is an interesting move. Whatever might be our concerns/desires with XML. Whichever other tool in the system should depend on the ports version, not on OUR expat. But that's what I understood. Actually, it's a good time to clear this point out. :) -- Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." Computer Science Undergraduate | FreeBSD Committer | CS Developer flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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