Vladimir Prus said: > William E. Kempf wrote: > >>> there is no such thing as the 'Gnu licence'. There is the 'GNU >>> General Public License' (aka GPL) and the 'GNU Lesser General Public >>> License' (LGPL). libxml2 uses neither, and its license is fully >>> compatible with boost's license requirements. >> >> Maybe, but it fails the Boost Library Guidelines: >> >> "Use the C++ Standard Library or other Boost libraries, but only when >> the benefits outweigh the costs. Do not use libraries other than the >> C++ Standard Library or Boost. See Library reuse (edit: >> http://www.boost.org/more/library_reuse.htm)." >> >> If a submitted library required libxml2, I'd personally vote no. If >> the interface was supposed to be portable to other backends, I'd >> probably still vote no unless at least one other backend was included >> as proof of concept. It would still be nice to have a Boost supplied >> backend, probably via Spirit, but so long as I was confident that I >> was not tied to any specific non-Boost library, it wouldn't matter >> that much. > > I tend to disagree here. Writing XML library is not easy, and libraries > like expat and libxml2 are already here, working and debugged. The > effort to write a new library from scratch would be quite serious, and > will result in anything tangible only after a lot of time. Unless > somebody has really lot of spare time, wrapping existing library is the > only way how XML support can be added in boost.
Careful with what you disagree with. I stated that it would still be nice to have a Boost supplied backend, but I didn't state this was a requirement. What I think *is* a requirement is that any wrapper library not be tied to a single backend, and I personally believe that what follows from that is that the submission must have at least 2 referenced backends for proof of concept. Note that this is precisely what Boost.Threads does, for instance. -- William E. Kempf _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
