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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:51:38 +0200
From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system?
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Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@critter.freebsd.dk):

> 2.  Under assumed name, "libxmlread" or something.  This means that
>     nothing which doesn't explicitly ask for it will get in touch with
>     this version of libexpat, and that will only be the programs in
>     the tree.  We don't need to track the official libexpat (sort of
>     like the DB(3) situation, except with better isolation I guess).

This seems to be a nice idea.  Can you trim down "our" version of expat
to only the libxmlread part or so?  This way we don't get too much
bloat, the perl fiasco won't happen, and once we've got a working
version we can update only for bug fixes.

Alex

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