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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:20:29 +0300
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile
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Ade Lovett wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:16:13AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Isn't the more appropriate solution will be to modify libxml2 to append '2' to
> > all installed bits (like gtk, sdl etc.), so it will be possible to have both
> > libxml and libxml2 installed on the same machine?
>
> Nope.  If you read the xml and GNOME lists, xml-1.x is effectively dead,
> being replaced by the 2.x series.  Unfortunately, for reasons that the
> software author can explain better, there are some fundamental differences
> between the two.. ie: no binary compatibility.
>
> Eventually, when chunks of GNOME have been rewritten, maybe as close
> as the 1.4 release, it will be possible to kill off libxml entirely,
> and use libxml2.
>
> Probably the only mistake here was on my part, bringing libxml2 into
> the tree after a repo-copy.  On reflection, this was probably done
> a little too fast, leading to confusion of the types we see here.
>
> Really need that "port <x> conflicts with port <y>" fu.

I disagree, because even if GNOME folks will update GNOME itself quite quickly, 3rd
party authors may not.

-Maxim



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