Re: gnome-games 2.17.2

[Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek rudy mif pg gda pl>]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Callum McKenzie wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:51 +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> >
> > > gnome-games-2.17.2
> > > ==================
> > >
> > > Where to get it
> > > ---------------
> > >
> > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-games/2.17/
> >
> > Why new gnome-games uses expat ?
> > After last changes gnome-games uses more than two XML parser libraries
> > (libxml2 and expat).
> All GNOME programs suffer from this problem. Most of the libraries use
> libxml since that is the officially endorsed parser. Unfortunately, one
> of the low-level libraries (fontconfig? I can't remember) uses expat as
> its XML parser. So it gets included too.

In this case it is completly not true.
Fotconfig can be configured to use libxml (use --enable-libxml2 in 
configure parametres). The same situaction is in case for example dbis 
(but not in case dbus-glib .. Q: why ?)

Most of this kind packages now can be *now* builded with choosing on build 
stage beetween libxml2 or expat, libcrypto ftom openssl and libgcrypt from 
gcrypt, libssl from or openssl or libssl3 from nss.

Also most of this kind of problems have source in not existance kind of 
"Core Libraries Fundation" on Linux and similar.

[..]
> BTW glib provides its own xml-lite parser. So there are three...

This is next known stupididy.
Most of the packages uses standalone XML parsers. I don't know even one 
package which uses this parser.
XML parser is neccessary for many non glib/gtk+/gnome packages, so
embedding this in glib only enlarges current libraries enthropy.

kloczek
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