Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

If someone wanted to port fontconfig to support libxml2, I'm sure the
patch would get accepted, were it reasonable. The code actually used to
have a configure option to use libxml2 instead, but it was not getting
the maintanence it needed, so it was removed.

Beyond that, the only other thing which I care about that uses expat,
is the XML::Parser perl module, which we require for intltool.

Most everything else in terms of Gnome, use libxml2 anyway. Gnumeric,
Abiword, the background capplet, gconf, etc... all use libxml2.

-- dobey


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:06 +0200, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:25 +0100, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote:
> > I am entering into the discussion thread without reading any other email 
> > than this one, but... as for XML we should not create the wheel again.
> > 
> > That leads to libxml2 or expat. In my case, I prefer libxml2. Being part 
> >   of w3c development maybe helps me choosing it. Well, having work with 
> > expat a long time ago when it was slower than libxml2 might help my 
> > decision as well.
> 
> Gtk already depends, albeit inderectely, on expat by depending on
> fontconfig.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like a dependency on libxml2, since my RecentManager code
> uses it for the storage file.
> 
> Just my .02€
> 
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>