Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 07:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/24231: Pyton 2.0: Add support for building pyexpat.so Message-ID: <200101121520.f0CFK3237749@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/24231; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com> Cc: Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>, peterh@sapros.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: ports/24231: Pyton 2.0: Add support for building pyexpat.so Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:15:15 +0200 Alexander N. Kabaev on 2001-01-12 (Fri) at 10:03:15 -0500: > > I always thought that having standard low-level interface that could be shared > among PyXML, 4DOM etc was the reason why pyexpat has been included into the > base Python 2.0 distribution. I'm searching the XML-SIG archives to see whether there is concrete thinking behind the status of expat. If there is, I don't remember it (but I may have missed it). Currently I think this is just one more example of the volatile and unfortunate mess surrounding Python's XML handling. Decisions seem to get taken on an ad hoc basis and reversed often. :-( > If that assumption is wrong and 4DOM and PyXML > will be rolling their own possibly incompatible versions anyway, then I have to > request my PR be closed. It does not make any sense to have py-expat as a > separate port outside the base python distribution either. Since Thomas doesn't want it in the Python port, the question is currently moot. Still looking into this. More later. -- Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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