On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:16:21PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> > >>> apt-cache showpkg doesn't show any reverse dependencies for 4suite, so > >>> an upload might be safe ... > >> > >> Well, some api changed. It might not be reasonnable ... > >> > > > > consider people using it as a depends for software not in Debian. > > Then, I'll try to see if I can remove xslt and xpath from 4suite > 0.11 and ship the one in python-xml 0.7. This may "unbreak things" > (I don't really believe in that though).
Hi, A few things that may be relevant here: * There are no clashes between PyXML and 4Suite's xpath and xslt, because they live in differant packates (xml and Ft.Xml) * the xpath and xslt packages in PyXML are mostly the ones that shipped in 4Suite 0.10.x, adapted to use minidom (or is it 4DOM? Can't rememeber, have to scheck) internally instead of 4suite's Domlette, so this means no API changes going from 4Suite-0.10 to PyXML-O.7 * as far as I know, there are a few things that won't work with PyXML's xpath and xslt, but these could be hammered out in PyXML-0.7.1, due out soon (and I could lobby/apply patches/fix bugs to get this done) * There were some API changes in the xpath and xslt APIs in 4Suite from 0.11 to 0.12.0a2, though in some cases a compatibility layer has been provided. People using 4Suite's xpath and xslt will most certainly have to upgrade their code anyway * I'm not certain that many products beside 4SuiteServer and Narval make use of the programming APIs. I (as a Narval developer) was quite alone to complain in the API changes on the 4Suite mailing lists. I'd therefore expect the number of people using 4Suite as a depend for non debian software to be relatively small. And for them, the maintenance nightmare is real, whatever solution you choose, but since I'd expect them to try to follow the latest API in their products, I'd strongly be in favour of including the latest available. What packages in Woody depend on 4Suite? Alexandre Fayolle -- LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Narval, the first software agent available as free software (GPL). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
