Re: time to upgrade our bundled expat?

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:09:36PM +0100, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:05:28PM +0100, Emiliano wrote: > > "Thies C. Arntzen" wrote: > > > > > > v 1.95.1 is out (http://expat.sourceforge.net) > > > > > > has anybody played with it? > > > > 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? It was painless in sense that there was nothing to change in client code except for #include <expat.h> instead of those two headers. > -are there any known incompatiblities? None. > -do you think that if we upgrade the PHP 4 bundled expat > we'll hit any wall? Be sure to make good configure detection for existing system library. You can just borrow it from Midgard library, it works fine for us for many systems with different packaged versions of Expat (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, RH, Mandrake/MandrakeCooker, Conectiva, etc). -- Sincerely yours, Alexander Bokovoy The Midgard Project | www.midgard-project.org | Aurora R&D team Minsk Linux Users Group | www.minsk-lug.net | www.aurora-linux.com IPLabs Linux Team | linux.iplabs.ru | Architecte Open Source -- Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. - John Keats