Re: [xml] Some tarball questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:33:29PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  Because it is needed when building the libxml2-python tarball.
> 
> What do you mean ? There's a special target in the Makefiles to create a 
> libxml2-python tarball ? Then it may not be needed to include the .c 
> file in the libxml2 tarball.

  It is needed. It's an external script running on libxml2 and libxslt.

> >Now if you get a different content, it's a problem, unless you specified
> >some configuration options which led to that difference.
> 
> The only configure options are:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.3
> 
> And it definitely leads to a different file. I didn't investigate in 
> which way it is different, though.

I have good practical reasons for the current state and so far you're 
complaining but without telling how this break something nor why this
might break. The status-quo will remain unless you justify the problem.

To be 100% clear to me the current state is:
  You complain "it's not needed", I'm saying "it is needed" and asking 
  "where is the problem ?"

I have a pragmatic viewpoint on any build and packaging issue, if it ain't
broken I will *not* fix it, because any change on build and packaging
can potentially affect dozens of different platforms/Os and special 
customer builds, and I'm very reluctant to make any change to those
unless I have a strong point for doing so. Any issue about "cleanless"
not backed up with a detailed problem case will be ignored, sorry.

Daniel

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