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From: | Dalibor Topic |
Subject: | Re: [Classpathx-discuss] [gnujaxp] javax.xml.* conform to jaxp1.1 |
Date: | Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:25:52 +0200 |
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Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
On 22 Aug 2003 11:05:25 +0100 Nic <address@hidden> wrote:Would Debian have a problem with this? It's just a dependancy on the package isn't it? Most people will already have libxml2 I suspect.No problem with Debian. But maybe with other JDK/ JRE. What does kaffe, sablevm, jikes, gcj and so think about this?
An optional dependency on an external library is not a problem for kaffe.Preferably, the external library should be available on seral platforms, since kaffe is trying to be the 'netbsd of virtual machines' and run almost everywhere. But it's not a 'must', for non-essential (i.e. not used in the bootstrap process) libraries.
In the best case, there would be a pure java implementation as a fallback for those systems without libxml2. But I guess, that's up to developers on those platforms to implement, which don't have a libxml2 port yet.
cheers, dalibor topic
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