Re: Moving libxml2 and libxslt to external dependencies

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:24:57AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 19:41 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > I can't speak for libxml++ maintainer, but given that libxml++ depends
> > on Glib::ustring, it should stay at most in the bindings.\
> 
> That's a strange logic. External dependencies should be allowed to use,
> for instance, glib.
> 
> If libxml is removed from the GNOME Platform then libxml++ should be
> removed too. (I'm the maintainer).

  That's also  a strange logic to me. libxml2 gets out of the GNOME platform
because I think it comes with the OS and its updates are really OS related
not GNOME releases related. If that's the case for libxml++ too then this
makes sense, but I'm not sure it's true at this point.

Daniel

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