Re: GConf debate ... the hermenutical key

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 18 Jun 2001, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> 
> > 
> > Delaying the jump to new interfaces is what has slowed gnome
> > development and forced revolutionary rather than evolutionary
> > api change.
> > 
> > - libxml : We should have made the jump to 2.0 as a group long ago
> >   (eg post 1.2) Look at the bugs and wasted effort due to continued
> >   use of the old code.
> > 
> BTW, I suppose we're finally going to use libxml2 for GNOME 2.0, are we not?
> 

AFAIK, yes. We would lose a lot of cool things like the current libxslt
and things like gnome-db2html3 use it. Among other things, it means full
and real docbook support as well as people being able to (potentially)
choose stylesheets, etc.

> cheers
> 
> --
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> <rodrigo ximian com>
> http://www.gnome-db.org/
> 

	Sander

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