[XML-SIG] expat (was: Developer's Day)

[Thomas B. Passin]

Greg Stein wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > Greg Stein wrote:
> > > > IIRC, when compiled to be of minimal size, expat is only about 50K.
> > >
> > > Euh... separate issue, right? We aren't bundling Expat into Python,
just
> > > pyexpat...
> >
> > I'm suggesting we should bundle expat, as Apache, Mozilla, Perl etc. do.
> > I see no good reason not to.
>
> It is under the MPL. Dunno if that is an issue, but there ya go.
>
> Speaking from my Linux-centric world, I think Expat is becoming common
> enough that I'd rather avoid bundling it. Also, Guido just recently
> mentioned a reluctance to bundle something like zlib (partly due to
> possible version problems between Python's version and the installed
> version); I would guess that he would have the same reluctance towards
> Expat as he has towards zlib.
>

This is actually a reason to bundle it with the Python distribution - you
know you have a version that works.  I've not been able to get sgmlop
working because of C API version differences.  This is an example of the
non-benefits of non-bundling.

Tom Passin