Can we please have these discussions about development direction and what goes where on this list?
I am in the uncomfortable position of having to second-guess you two and/or retreading matters that you are privately in accord with. - Dennis -- replying below to -- From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 10:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MiniZIp/tidy-html Dependency (was RE: External libraries on windows) On 28 December 2014 at 19:03, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: [ ... ] I am moving in the direction of not needing sources for external libraries. Upgrades are so much easier to handle if all we need to do is download a new lib. We have the same problem with maintenance in case of minizip that is based on zlib. So for minizip, we have our own implementation (DFZipfile.c) a modified version of minizip and an external library....that seems overkill. Both peter and I have discussed the use of external libraries, and we both want to isolate them in platform, so that we can replace them if needed, without having to change a world of sources. Peter thinks we should write our own HTML parser to replace w3c, I tend to agree with him, even though I think we need a discussion first how we internally represent documents. [ ... ]
