Re: [Deskbar] Winners of today's build breakages

["Nigel Tao" <nigel tao gnome gmail com>]

> (1) deskbar-applet added a new external dependency (elementtree)
> without notice being given to d-d-l.  In general we've sucked at
> letting maintainers know that they need to announce new external
> dependencies (and that the community needs to agree upon them, though
> there's an assumed acceptance unless someone voices objection), so we
> probably can't go too hard on them.  The dependency is probably sane,
> considering that it looks like it'll be part of python-2.5 anyway.
> But it, like dependencies added in other modules, should have at least
> been announced.  :)

Deskbar uses elementtree to parse a really small XML file.  This could
be easily re-written to use another XML parser, removing this new
dependency.

Is libxml2 the blessed XML library (if one has been blessed at all)?
Is it problematic that Deskbar is written in Python - i.e. would
libxml2's Python bindings be yet another new dependency??