Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 00:00:28 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> Cc: 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: <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021002130551.A14518@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org> <20021002130551.A14518@FreeBSD.org>
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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. I *love* to see expat in the base system. I've had some discussions in the past on the subject of bringing XML support to the FreeBSD base system. I believe this is a tremendous move for FreeBSD! XML is getting increased industry support, a lot of media attention and is becoming more and more important at the backend of the internet, b2b, p2p and other forms of data exchange as well as data formats (e.g. DocBook, XHTML, XSL:FO, Ant). 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. Considering the arguments posted, I believe that the 'libexpat2fb' option is probably the best way to do this. Poul-Henning, you've got my +1 for bringing in expat2 ! -- Ernst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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