Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:32:52 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <p0511170fb9c130cfa786@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20021002122858.GJ44476@starjuice.net> References: <20021002103007.588d3bf3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <84545.1033548356@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021002115138.GE90861@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002122858.GJ44476@starjuice.net>
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At 2:28 PM +0200 10/2/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >We're at a lucky moment in time, where there's only one version of >expat in the ports tree. But think about what happens when there >are two mainstream versions at large again. > >Please let's learn from past mistakes and give this library a >completely separate name, perhaps with stripped down functionality. >Then ports can still choose to use it instead of the expat2 port >if it does the job for them, and we have our cake and eat it. I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". I have no opinion on whether that should be the full expat2 or a stripped down functionality, but I think we should make it clear that "this is the expat which the base system needs -- if you do not like this version, then use the appropriate port and don't complain to us about which version we install in the base system". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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