is new lib dependency possible for 3.5.2?

Nicolas Goutte nicolasg at snafu.de
Sun Jan 29 17:59:18 GMT 2006


On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:47, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 January 2006 04:17, Andriy Rysin wrote:
(...)
> As to the main critic - the point is that if there's C library which I
> could use to (greatly) improve xkb configuration parsing for kxkb (we're
> talking about a dozen of bugs here) and later add new features for free,
> why would I care that it uses another low-level lib,  which depends only
> on glibc? By the way libxklavier also depends on libxml2 and libz. So
> the question is whether this will be a problem, because I would not like
> to discard the library just because it uses XML parser from libxml
> arguing we already have it in Qt?

libxml2 is used by KDE too. (I do not know why people are less "allergic" to 
that one, despite being released on gnome.org servers.) And zlib is used too.

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