At 2:28 PM +0200 10/2/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >We're at a lucky moment in time, where there's only one version of >expat in the ports tree. But think about what happens when there >are two mainstream versions at large again. > >Please let's learn from past mistakes and give this library a >completely separate name, perhaps with stripped down functionality. >Then ports can still choose to use it instead of the expat2 port >if it does the job for them, and we have our cake and eat it.
I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". I have no opinion on whether that should be the full expat2 or a stripped down functionality, but I think we should make it clear that "this is the expat which the base system needs -- if you do not like this version, then use the appropriate port and don't complain to us about which version we install in the base system". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
