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 -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
