On Mon, May 27, 2019, 12:18 Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 20:13, <i...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Author: ivan
> > Date: Mon May 27 17:13:43 2019
> > New Revision: 1860150
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1860150&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Windows platform: Provide a native XML parser implementation based on
> > XmlLite [1].
> >
> > Start using it by default if we weren't explicitly told to build with
> either
> > libxml2 or expat.
> >
> > (This is a merge of the `xmllite` branch.)
> >
> > Doing so reduces the amount of dependencies required for building and
> using
> > APR, which I believe to be a good thing in this particular case. And it
> also
> > means that by default we would be relying on the native component of the
> OS
> > rather than on a 3rd-party library.
> >
> Hey all,
>
> Switching to XmlLite on the Windows platform has been one of those
> changes that I had in mind for the Win32 part in APR 2.0.
>
> Doing so reduces the amount of dependencies required for building and
> using APR, which I believe to be a good thing in this particular case.
> And it also means that by default we would be relying on the native
> component of the OS rather than on a 3rd-party library.
>
> Please let me know if there would be any objections against this change.
>

Great change! Keep going 😁

Cheers,
-g

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