Mark Wielaard writes: > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:41 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > From my perspective, a large percentage of our libgcj issues are > > xml-related. Is there any way we could put xerces and/or xalan (or > > whatever) in the endorsed dir and make those our default for F7? > > Which bug report are still pending? I have CCed Chris who might know > more about the state of any bugs. We do have some conformance tests on > builder which seem to indicate that the GNU XML libraries are in parts > more standards compliant (although I guess that doesn't help if your > application isn't using xml in a compliant way). > http://builder.classpath.org/xml/ These tests aren't automatically run, > but we could enable them in the daily builds. > > And a slight problem with the alternative libraries is that at least for > GPl applications xerces and/or xalan come under an incompatible license > (GPLv3 will be compatible, but no applications use that yet). But we can > try to make only non-GPL works based on these libraries use them I > guess. I think we ought to do some testing and decide what do do based on that. Andrew, if you can detect some hosage that is fixed by xerces and/or xalan, let us have the testcases. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
