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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 05 avril 2005 à 13:22 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev a écrit :
> On Apr 5, 2005 12:28 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at 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
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