Re: [lmi] upgrade to xmlwrapp-0.6.0

[Greg Chicares]

On 2009-04-23 16:47Z, Vaclav Slavik wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 16:31 +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> Is that because GTK requires (or at least strongly encourages)
>> libxml2,
>> and it's safe to assume these days that no older versions than
>>   libxml2-2.6.0  2003-10-20
>>   libxslt-1.1.0  2003-11-04
>> would be current on any reasonable system?
> 
> It's because checking for xmlwrapp and xsltwrapp:
> 
>    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XMLWRAPP, xmlwrapp >= 0.6.0 xsltwrapp)
> 
> also checks (and includes libraries and/or cflags as needed) for its
> dependencies libxml2 and libxslt and because we don't use
> libxml2/libxslt directly, we shouldn't need to check for their presence
> anymore.

Thanks--the reason I had guessed didn't seem rigorous enough, so I
figured there had to be a better reason.

> What I didn't realize was that the version check could be for non-API
> reasons (e.g. some bug fixes or XSLT features). I couldn't find any
> information about that in commit logs, would you remember that by a
> chance? The commit that added it was
> 
>         timestamp: Thu 2006-11-02 19:37:36 +0000
>         message:
>           [lmi @ 2006-11-02 19:37:36 by chicares]
>           Import autotools files from 'gnome-xml-branch'
>         
> which simply added versioned check without explanation, so I assume it
> was simply to get 2.6's API (i.e. something not relevant anymore,
> because we only use xmlwrapp API now).

There I was just merging Evgeniy's work. I don't see any reason to
worry about the version check. IIRC, libxml2-2.6.26 just happened to
be the current release at that time--and indeed
  http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
it was released on 2006-06-06.