At 08:06 AM 2/2/01 -0600, Sam TH wrote:
>Made the CVS repository smaller by removing the xmlwf directory (an
>application of expat we don't use) from expat. 

Sam, 

I think you and I have had this debate before, but are the space savings 
really worth it?  

It's one thing to add code to our distribution of someone else's library -- 
forking to make our build system easier isn't pleasant, but I can totally 
understand why the expat maintainer wouldn't be interested in that patch.  

However, I really don't like the idea of distributing a fork which *deletes* 
working code from someone else's library.  Imagine the poor hacker out there 
who:

  - wants to use expat for something else, 
  - knows she's already got a copy from us, and 
  - eventually figures out that part of it is missing.  

Ick.  You explain it to her.  I don't want to.  

Paul,
the grumpy one

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