Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

There's also the view that it'll be easier to justify upstreaming a patch if 
it's been released and tested in a separate app. We require that all the time 
for Python patches, so why should we expect other projects to be different?

We're totally entitled to only release it for those platforms, because we are 
responsible for libexpat on those (we could vendor it for all of them? Or 
switch to platform-supported libraries for macOS and Windows?)

Who normally updates the vendored libexpat? I'd rather let them make the call 
on how far to diverge from upstream, since it'll be up to them to roll the 
changes forward or revert them in favour of upstream. I doubt different 
defaults will be an issue, especially since they aren't configurable anyway.

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