[XML-SIG] expat (was: Developer's Day)

[Greg Stein]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Paul Prescod wrote:
>...
> Expat can chew through 17 megabytes in 7 seconds on my laptop working
> under the crippling presence of Windows NT. The only trick is getting
> the Python binding fast enough. I'm not clear on why, of all the
> scripting language communities, we Python people are the only ones with
> an antipathy towards expat. I mean rather than debate about the various

Not me!

> tradeoffs we could get standards conformance, performance and reduce our
> maintenance burden by sharing maintenance with the other users of expat:
> 
>  * Mozilla
>  * Perl
>  * TCL
>  * Javascript

   * Apache

Apache 1.3.9 and later *include* Expat because I checked it in there
myself!

I mentioned this somewhere recently: we should absolutely include pyexpat
into 1.6, regardless of what other XML bits we might include. I do not
think we include Expat itself, tho(!).

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/