
Oct. 1, 2001
5:09 p.m.
I have mixed feelings. There are really two things that we could do: We could add Expat to our CVS repository, which means syncing a bunch of files everytime a new Expat release comes out, or we could bundle the Expat sources with the Python source distribution when the distribution is built, but not add them to CVS. This avoids the extra files in CVS, but complicates construction of the distribution and adds a new wrinkle to the configuration management.
I'm in favour of putting it into the CVS. This will allow CVS users to build it, and it will allow proper integration and testing of required changes into setup.py (and Setup.dist; the current text has caused a lot of confusion in the past). Regards, Martin