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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:40:36 -0400
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libexpat Makefile libbsdxml.3
Message-ID:  <200210041840.36226.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <200210041120.g94BKJmn001334@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200210041120.g94BKJmn001334@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 04 October 2002 07:20 am, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
= phk         2002/10/04 04:20:19 PDT
= 
=   Modified files:
=     lib/libexpat         Makefile 
=   Added files:
=     lib/libexpat         libbsdxml.3 
=   Log:
=   Ok, concensus was to install libexpat under a "private brandname",
=   and after some deliberation the name "libbsdxml" was chosen since it
=   conveys the two most important attributes: "Private to FreeBSD" and
=   "XML".

I tried searching for this discussion, but can not find. Can anyone post
a URL? This "privatizing" looks similar to the -lmd vs. OpenSSL, and the
magnitude of the different -liberty-s. Why make the third party software
install expat, if the functionality already comes with FreeBSD?
   
	-mi

=   Add a skeleton man-page to give the credit and point for further
=   documentation. (If somebody wants to write a true mdoc manpage for
=   this I am sure both the eXpat people and I will be grateful).
=   
=   (Still not connected to the build)


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