David,
I find this discussion somehat irrelevant since expat 1.95 has solved
this problem completely. The way Sablotron used expat was the best one
we could find, especially as we did not use autoconf at the beginning.
Also, we needed a shared library version of expat, which is something
you don't get from the original makefile. The structure of expat was
left intact in the modified distribution, except for removed Windows
binaries and the added makefiles.
Tom
David Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:47:37AM +0100, Kaiserovi wrote:
> > Wait. Sablot 0.44 *is* using jclark's expat 1.1. The sources are just
> > the same; only the makefiles for use with Sablotron are added.
>
> That's not really the issue though - it's a bad idea to distribute
> a different set of tarballs from his sets. Sablotron shouldn't provide
> any custom Makefiles for expat, it should just use it's own Makefiles
> and test for an installed set of libs.
>
> If you want to offer a _mirror_ of his tarballs, that's fine, but
> if you do anything else, you force someone to choose which
> Expat they are going to install - which causes a problem as soon as
> someone wants to use Expat for something besides Sablotron.
>
> The two tarballs I looked at - from jclark's web site, and from
> Sablotron's, were completely different - at least in structure,
> which is bad enough.
>
> Also, the Sablotron web page, even after the redirect once you click
> on the download link, seems to send some extraneous data chunks after
> the file is sent. What OS/server combo is that?
>
> > Expat 1.1 was the last production release before the new expat 1.95 (Oct
> > 21, 2000). Expansion of parameter entities was only supported in a test
> > version of expat. In spite of the advantages of the latter, we decided
> > to use the stable version.
> >
> > Now that expat 1.95 exists, there's no question about what to use, and
> > the next release of Sablot (0.50) will switch to it.
>
> As a seperate item - jclarke needs to put the version number in the
> filename of his expat.zip, and maintain a couple versions back, to
> simplify maintainence for people who write package install tools.
>
> --
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> If you don't spend energy getting what you want,
> You'll have to spend it dealing with what you get.
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