When Expat was added to Apache a couple years ago, part of the impetus was to make XML parsing a standard feature for the web server -- modules could count on it being present for their use.
So now the question arises, who is using the Expat that is included with Apache 1.3? Was the goal of enabling XML usage successful? Note: this is only relative to Apache 1.3; the basis for the query is related to some technical problems with its inclusion in Apache; Apache 2.0 doesn't have the same problems since it will prefer an installed Expat when possible. Note 2: this is just an informational query; I'm not sure that we'd rip it out (there could still be people who don't regularly read this list); I think the answer is to fix Configure to find the system lib when possible. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
