Re: my worry about the recent libxml change

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:

> 
>   Then Nautilus should link against the broken library, this should
> not prevent others from using a decent tool.
> 

This change breaks not only Nautilus but any application that uses OAF
as well.

>   I could of course sacrifice another couple of days to have both unclean
> and clean behaviour available ... I need to gauge if I should loose more
> time on the issue.

That would be fine with me, as long as compatibility mode were the
default, and it was possible to use both modes in one application
cleanly (in particular without needing code changes to libraries that
need the unclean mode.

>   Contrary to what seems Maciej belief, I'm trying to save Nautilus-1.0
> release from immediate obsolescence, not to kill it. If PLD or more
> importantly Ximian switches to libxml2, I'm afraid the bonobo they release
> would break Nautilus in a far more difficult way to fix than the libxml1
> CVS head. I would prefer to come with a cleaner solution, maybe we won't
> have any other choice than to ship a libxml1 with 2 parsers switchable
> at runtime, this may work.

I'm not talking about the Nautilus 1.0 release (which has already
happened), I am talking about the GNOME 1.4 release which is planned
to be 6 days from now, leaving 0 time to fix all the problems caused
by the new libxml.

-- 
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
whacky-ass code cowboy[sic]
Technical Lead, Services Engineering
Eazel, Inc.