On 7/29/07, Davi Arnaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Can't we get rid of the builtin expat on trunk? Yesterday I had yet > another problem linking python (python-xml) and a static build apr-util > together on a pretty complex application. I know I should have linked > apr-util with the system expat, but then what's the point of having one > builtin? > > http://people.apache.org/~davi/apr-util-remove-expat.patch
Because not everyone (hi Windows folks) has expat already installed. For required dependencies, I'm in favor of bundling - and we used to be ahead of expat releases - though that situation has changed in the last 5 years or so. Regardless, if expat were optional, then I say we could easily remove it; but apr_xml_* has been a mandatory API since 1.0, so IMO we shouldn't remove it until we did an APR 2.x and make apr_xml_* optional... -- justin
