* De: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 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.
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