From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 2 13: 5:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 3132337B401; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:05:51 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" Cc: Marc Recht , Alexander Langer , phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021002130551.A14518@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org>; from bsder@mail.allcaps.org on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" [ Data: 2002-10-02 ] [ Subjecte: Re: expat2 in the base system? ] > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Marc Recht wrote: > > > IMO 1. would be better with a complete expat. So the ports could use the > > system version and probably/maybe the drift between the official- and > > system-version will not be that big. And compared to Perl expat it > > rather small. So the bloat couldn't be that big.. > > This strikes me as a step in the wrong direction. Isn't FreeBSD moving to > making more things optional packages rather than direct parts of base? > > If Perl and the userland things which depend upon it can be made into > install time packages, what's stopping the same thing from being done for > GEOM (ie. libexpat and the userland things which depend upon it)? GEOM is a kernel option, and one that is about to become the default, and a method for a uniform system for passign data around would be great. I seem to remember a discussion with Robert Watson and myself about a year ago where we discussed some sort of classy parser in libc for the MAC config files, etc., and we discussed XML at some point... Having libexpat around makes it a lot easier for people who need to do config files, or pass around data structures. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message