Re: [libxml++] Dependencies

["Trappel Martin" <martin trappel ksengineers at>]

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> On Behalf Of Murray Cumming
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:19 AM
> To: Vadim Zeitlin
> Cc: libxmlplusplus-general lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [libxml++] Dependencies
> 
> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:37 +0200, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:01:53 +0200 Trappel Martin 
> <martin trappel ksengineers at> wrote:
> > 
> > TM> It has been discussed in the past.
> > 
> >  It has been discussed many many times...
> > 
> > TM> There is a patch that will replace ustring with 
> std::string but it 
> > TM> is not maintained
> > 
> >  It is maintained in the sense that I still use it in all projects 
> > (still) using libxml2.
> > 
> > TM> and there is no interest by the people working on libxml++ to 
> > TM> reduce the dependencies.
> > 
> >  This is unfortunately very true and it's hard to do 
> anything about it.
> > Many people have asked about this both and off list but libxml++ 
> > maintainers simply don't seem to hear this. I mean, I know 
> that there 
> > is no work being done on libxml++ anyhow but just how hard 
> can it be 
> > to apply a patch introducing a new off by default 
> compilation option? 
> > But, again,
> > libxml++ developers just don't seem to have any interest in making 
> > libxml++ life of
> > people developing under Windows easier -- and sometimes it 
> seems quite 
> > the contrary.
> 
> This is silly. glibmm is easily available for Windows.
> 

Allow me ...

I took approx a day playing around trying to get everything together to
make libxml++ and it's dependecies work on windows.
I failed. I compiled libxml with VS2005 to make sure it uses the same
runtime libraryies as our app. I also tried to do this with libxml++ and
it's dependencies and was not able to. My day to day work is getting
stuff to run under Windows and M$VS so quite obviously my strengths do
not lie with makefiles etc.
As I see it, it is a reality that developers under Windows do not in
general have the skills to make these thing work ad hoc.
So libxml2 made me go through one project to make a great xml-library
work -- fair enough!
Libxml++ would make me go through three projects for a C++ wrapper for
libxml2 ... Not worth the hassle. (At least with the amount of xml
support we need at the moment.)

Fair enough if you do not care about windows (that's my impression).
But don't tell me it's ""easily available for Windows."" because it is a
mayor headache getting all these dependecies into a windows app.

Cheers and
best regards
Martin Trappel


> Furthermore, there is still no clean svn patch even in bugzilla.
> 
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