Re: libxml/libxslt as external dependencies

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mardi 18 septembre 2007, à 14:17 +0200, Frederic Crozat a écrit :
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > while preparing GNOME 2.20.0 release, I noticed we were lagging for
> > libxml2 and libxslt release, because Daniel is no longer uploading those
> > modules on ftp.gnome.org but prefers to keep them on xmlsoft.org, since
> > he considers libxml2 / libxslt to be lower lever than GNOME, like a part
> > of the OS.
> > 
> > I've discussed with him over irc and we agreed on the following :
> > 
> > -for 2.20.0, I've pushed latest version of libxml2 and libxslt on
> > ftp.gnome.org so we don't need to change anything so late in the process
> > 
> > -for 2.21.x, we switch libxml2 and libxslt as external dependencies and
> > use xmlsoft.org to grab those tarballs.
> 
> Totally makes sense. The only thing that could be worrying is that we
> could be breaking the API/ABI stability of the platform this way, but I
> don't think the libxml2/libxslt API/ABI will change soon, so we just
> need to specify this clearly when announcing the change.

  I would be the one most annoyed by any API/ABI breakage, this won't happen
except for a mistake.

Daniel

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