[Zope-Coders] drowning in a sea of expats

[Andy McKay]

When I first saw this subject I thought you were drowning in a sea of
expatriots...

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn Faassen" <faassen@vet.uu.nl>
To: <zope-coders@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: [Zope-Coders] drowning in a sea of expats


> Hi there,
>
> The expat situation in Zope is rather complicated:
>
> Python 2.1 comes with a expat:
>
>   lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so
>   used by lib/python2.1/xml/parsers/expat.py
>
>   I don't know where the actual expat is here, perhaps linked into
pyexpat.so.
>
>   Which version is this?
>
> Zope itself comes with an expat:
>
>   lib/python/Shared/DC/xml/pyexpat
>
>   Undetermined version, but fairly old; MPL licensed it seems, and
>   floating around 1.1 or 1.2.. What uses this?
>
> ParsedXML comes with yet another expat:
>
>   Products/ParsedXML/Expat (for pyexpat)
>   Products/ParsedXML/Expat/lib (for expat itself)
>
>   This is version 1.95.2 (in the ParsedXML CVS). This is the latest
>   released version. ParsedXML seems to need some of its features.
>
> This is Too Many Expats. :) There's probably another one in pyxml..
> What shall we do with this?
>
> ParsedXML apparently needs some features in 1.95.2, so it seems hard
> to avoid this one. I'm *still* trying to find a windows compiled version
> of PyExpat to release a binary Windows version of ParsedXML -- can
> someone help me?
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
>
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