Re: NSXML* classes changed to use libxml2 directly... Should we merge this into the trunk?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
On 01/23/2012 06:17 PM, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> For this reason it was decided to change the implementation to use
> libxml2.  Currently the branch I created to develop these changes
> (nsxml_libxml2_changes) is much more mature and functional than the
> code that is currently on the trunk.
>
> I am soliciting the opinion of the group regarding adding this code
> into the trunk once it is ready so that people don't look at the
> already obsolete code on the trunk and begin making changes that are
> not relavant to the current direction it is going.
>
> Please let me know what all of you think.
I think it is a fine idea to have a more complete implementation.

I think it is good to do that after the base release of the code freeze 
(after FOSDEM esentially).

My other thought is that libxml2 should not become a hard dependency, so 
everything should compile, of course without having the more complete 
XML functionality. That's useful for a lean base and requires perhaps 
some make tricks, configure already detects libxml2.

Riccardo