Re: [libxml++] Dependencies

[Vadim Zeitlin <vadz users sf net>]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:18:34 +0200 Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

MC> > TM> and there is no interest by the people working on libxml++ to reduce
MC> > TM> the dependencies.
MC> > 
MC> >  This is unfortunately very true and it's hard to do anything about it.
MC> > Many people have asked about this both and off list but libxml++
MC> > maintainers simply don't seem to hear this. I mean, I know that there is
MC> > no work being done on libxml++ anyhow but just how hard can it be to apply
MC> > a patch introducing a new off by default compilation option? But, again,
MC> > libxml++ developers just don't seem to have any interest in making life of
MC> > people developing under Windows easier -- and sometimes it seems quite the
MC> > contrary.
MC> 
MC> This is silly. glibmm is easily available for Windows.

 This is as true as saying that all Windows programs are easily available
under Linux because we have Wine. You may disagree with this but 99% of
people developing under Windows are not interested in installing glib and
glibmm just to be able to parse XML.

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

 I am ready to spend time on making a clean patch if it has a non
negligible chance of being applied. But not if it's just for it to sit for
a couple of more years in bugzilla.

 Regards,
VZ