Re: [xml] [patches] static linking on win32 with static cruntimes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:58:50PM -0500, Joel Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:04:41PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > I think defaulting to file descriptor based low level access and avoiding
> > FILE pointer as much as possible would be a general nice enhancement where
> > needed, I remember something with some verions of UNIX having ridiculously
> > low number of simultaneous FILE opened for a given process.
>
> i agree but am wondering how this would fit with no-(api/api) changes
> policy... all new APIs using file descriptors?

  no but making sure when we provide a path to a file that all I/O are done
through fds not FILEs.

> also, while on topic of APIs, the fact that extension registeration
> functions don't take the hash to register the extension in as an 
> argument, but instead register to global xmlHashes means folks wanting
> to using plugins MUST dynamically link libxslt into the plugin.
> would we ever want to fix that? not sure...

  I'm not sure I understand :-)

Daniel

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