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seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Apr 5 13:10:06 UTC 2005
> [...]
> > yum-2.3.2-1
> > -----------
> > * Mon Apr 04 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 2.3.2-1
> > - update to 2.3.2, now requires python-elementtree for xml parsing
>
> Why yet another XML library ?
> What is so special about that library and yum ?
>
We've moved to elementTree for parsing the xml metadata from libxml2.
The tests we've done have shown a 2-3x speed improvement with a lighter
memory footprint.
-sv
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