[Python-Dev] Leading with XML-RPC

[Guido van Rossum]

> any reason we cannot ship a snapshot of the expat sources
> with Python?  (just the necessary files, that is: three C files,
> and some header files)

Well, there's maintenance (someone has to sync these files from the
expat source tree into the Python tree regularly) and possibly
licensing (I don't know about the expat license, but who knows if it's
GPL compatible).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)