some packages that can be removed from Core

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:18:22PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 06:13 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:56:01PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > perl-libxml-perl
> > [...]
> > > perl-XML-LibXML
> > > perl-XML-LibXML-Common
> > 
> >   Hum, I wonder the level of code duplication there..., I know perl-XML-LibXML
> > is a maintained libxml2 binding, I assume perl-XML-LibXML-Common is just a
> > split (maybe for perl-XML-LibXSLT)
> 
> perl-XML-LibXML-Common is a base package of perl-XML-LibXML, being
> shared between several perl modules of the perl-XML-LibXML family, from
> the same author as perl-XML-LibXML (Christian Glahn).
> For detail, see http://search.cpan.org/~phish
> 
> Whether it is actively maintained, is arguable. It's latest changes date
> back to 04/04, but this doesn't mean much, because these packages "just
> work".

  I have heard that he made progresses but they were not yet pushed, nothing
conclusive but seems he is still the active maintainer.

> Several other perl modules from Bill's list also are
> base-packages/dependencies of perl-XML-LibXML, eg. perl-XML-SAX and
> perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.
> 
> I.e. lurking in Bill's list is a proposal to remove a tree of
> perl-modules forming a popular libxml2 perl-interface ;)

  I honnestly can't juge how popular they are :-)

Daniel

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