Re: [libxml++] Benefit of the dependency on glibmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 01:23 +0200, Alexander Vassilev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to libxml and libxml++ so I am not much familiar with the code 
> of libxml++ (i've just had a quick and superfluous look). Reading the 
> dependency requirements i stumbled upon the line "glibmm-2.4 
> <http://www.gtkmm.org/> (or a subset of it containing at least 
> Glib::ustring)". As I am developing for the windows platform (along with 
> linux and macos), I am a bit picky about dependencies (not easy on 
> windows). What worried me here is the dependency on glibmm, which in 
> turn depends on glib itself, which depends on several other gnu libs.  
> My question is - how heavily does libxml++ depend on glibmm and on 
> GLib::ustring? Is it theoretically possible to use std::string instead 
> and possibly directly libiconv for unicode conversions? Is this a 
> feasible idea, or I have missed something in my quick look?

It's entirely doable in a (renamed) fork. But that would have to be
maintained by somebody who wants it enough. So far nobody has made the
effort:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320197

ustring is just used to make the API nicer. No encoding conversion is
actually done in libxml++. That's taken care of by libxml.

By the way, this has been discussed repeatedly before.

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