Le mardi 05 avril 2005 à 13:22 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev a écrit :
On Apr 5, 2005 12:28 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> If yum was already using libxml2, then it required more effort
to switch
> to cElementTree. So why wasn't constructive work done to _improve_ the
> Python bindings for libxml2? Is there a list of items that need
> improvement, and where are the bugs filed against libxml2 for each of
> those items?
Because it was a lot less effort to switch to cElementTree. Simple as that.
It would have taken a lot more effort otherwise. Is your time free?
What's right at the app level is not always right at the distro level.
Given the _huge_ scope of XML standards focusing on a single core engine
(instead of a score of offerings that all do the same easy parts and
fail on the hard ones) makes some sort of sense.
--
Nicolas Mailhot