"Jason E. Stewart" wrote:
>
> "Murray Cumming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "Arnold, Curt" wrote:
> > >
> > > I haven't been following this thread and it troubles me that
> > > appears that it would require touching every single include of a
> > > Xerces header file at least in applications (and possibly in the
> > > Xerces code base itself)?
> >
> > No, I have said several times that this will not require any existing
> > apps to change the way that they #include the Xerces-C++ headers. Read
> > the thread.
> >
> > And I don't see the point in complaining that it will be necessary to
> > change part of the Xerces-C++ code base. Of course it needs to be
> > changed to be fixed.
>
> Murray,
>
> People don't get it. This isn't a clear issue of 'we can't compile',
> 'I can't like my app', or 'there's a memory leak'. So please be
> patient with them.
>
> You've done this before, but if you want people to care about this
> issue, it looks like you'll have to do it again. Summarize what's
> broken and how this solution will fix it.
What more do you need to know that's not in this summary?:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-c-dev&m=99665112206026&w=2
> > However, until we fix the build issues then Xerces-C++ will:
> > - Never be easy to install.
> > - Never be provided with Linux distributions.
>
> It would be big win to have 'configure ; make ; make install'
> working.
>
> However, Xerces-C is already in the debian distro and has been for some
> time.
That's good news, and I'd be interested to know how they go about
building the .debs. I can't believe that they tolerated Xerces-C dumping
all its includes in the top of <prefix>/include.
I also don't know how they deal with the strange Xerces-C versioning. I
guess that there's no apps in debian that depend on Xerces-C, so binary
compatibility and versioning isn't an issue yet.
> I still think we should make it easier to install.
>
> jas.
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