[XML-SIG] Expat (Was: Strange install issue)

[Dinu Gherman]

Fred L. Drake, Jr.:

> Relax, Dinu!  ;-)

I'm doing my best!

> Guido seriously avoids checking in code to the Python CVS that needs
> to be updated periodically and which he doesn't feel he should
> maintain.  We've finally convinced him that Expat should be
> incorporated into Python and assured to be present; this has been
> done for Python 2.3, primarily due to Martin's efforts.

Good! I really hope it hasn't taken him 10 years, like it happened
in the totally unrelated case of Boolean datatypes... ;-)

> Python on Windows has been shipping the Expat DLLs for a while now,
> so this wasn't a problem for Python on Windows.

That *is* part of the problem. I really don't like inconsistencies.
I can stand them if there is a good reason for their existence,
but it should be very clearly indicated. In this case I'm not sure
they are. I'll check your book again, to see what it says on that
point! ;-)

Dinu