Re: time to upgrade our bundled expat?
| From: | Thies C. Arntzen | Date: | Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:35:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: time to upgrade our bundled expat? | ||
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:35:13PM +0100, Emiliano wrote:
> "Thies C. Arntzen" wrote:
>
> > > We use it a lot. Works well, supports multiple charsets, and is now in
> > > as sane library format so internalizatin isn't strictly necesary
> > > anymore (although there can be reasons to do so all the same, of
> > > course).
> > >
> > > Is there anything specific you want to know about it?
> >
> > -was the upgrade from the original jclark-dist painfull at
> > all?
>
> We haven't seen any API changes ourselves, and I think we use a fairly
> sizeable part of the API. We had our own version of expat-lib, built
> from jclark-dist, and include file name changes aside, it was painless.
>
> > -are there any known incompatiblities?
>
> Not that I know of, altough ISTR that apache had renamed some function
> names for their internalized version. Our resident expat 'expert' will
> be online in a few hours and I'm sure he can give you more details.
maybe they could enlighten me what advantages we'll see if we
upgrade?
tc