Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:05:51 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: "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: <20021002130551.A14518@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org>; from bsder@mail.allcaps.org on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0700 References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
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* De: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> [ Data: 2002-10-02 ] [ Subjecte: Re: expat2 in the base system? ] > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Marc Recht wrote: > > > IMO 1. would be better with a complete expat. So the ports could use the > > system version and probably/maybe the drift between the official- and > > system-version will not be that big. And compared to Perl expat it > > rather small. So the bloat couldn't be that big.. > > This strikes me as a step in the wrong direction. Isn't FreeBSD moving to > making more things optional packages rather than direct parts of base? > > If Perl and the userland things which depend upon it can be made into > install time packages, what's stopping the same thing from being done for > GEOM (ie. libexpat and the userland things which depend upon it)? GEOM is a kernel option, and one that is about to become the default, and a method for a uniform system for passign data around would be great. 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. -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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