Re: [xml] Creating Win32 wrapper function for exported variables

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:47:55PM +0200, Igor  Zlatkovic wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> >   What I would really like to see is one stable maintainer 
> > for Windows.
> > It is really difficult for me to judge what is appropriate and what is
> > not w.r.t. handling the Makefiles and specificities of this 
> > environment.
> > When I get conflicting opinions I can hardly do anything better than
> > keeping the status quo, it's not good. I would also like to 
> > see prepackaged
> > libraries and binaries for libxml and libxslt. Ideally the maintainer
> > should also use CVS to check things regulary before releases.
>
> Right you are, my Lord. A maintainer is needed. If you still think it
> apropriate, and noone objects, I would be honoured to take the task.
>
>   "By my honour, I, Igor of the Zlatkovic, heir to the throne of the
> Zlatkovic, proclaim herewith that I shall take pains to maintain the
> Win32/MSVC port of libxml2, for at least one year."
>   -- 19. July 2001, Igor Zlatkovic
>
> That was the official statement :-) 

  Fantastic :-) !

> Oh, and apply all that to libxslt as well.

  Okay 

> Things have changed. In the meantime I have a different position here
> and can decide the one thing or another myself. The one new colleague or
> another tried to serialize the memory-built DOM on the disk using xerces
> and came running into my office, gasping for breath, asking where is
> libxml2, cursing at xerces. Further, chief folk in here are too busy
> with MS .NET to notice their coffee is getting cold, so being
> source-similar to java is nothing they argue about anymore. Shortly: I
> am keeping my projects and they are keeping libxml2.

  Very cool, well colleagues will curse libxml too, it just a matter of
how much one push any given library before it fails. One of the positive
point from your boss' point of view is that I should make sure you won't
have to switch and basically if you have troubles, I better have them
fixed. It's not an official contract but a reasonable tacit deal :-)

  Great, I'm very happy on how things evolves !

Daniel

P.S.: the day your colleagues start cursing their OS, I may help too ;-)

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