Keith Packard wrote: >Around 17 o'clock on May 4, John Ellson wrote: > > > >>Are there any plans or thoughts about migrating fontconfig from expat to >>libxml2? >> >> > >I looked at doing that with the SAX interfaces in libxml2 but didn't get >very far as those are a long ways from the expat API. I would like to >retain the ability to build against expat as that library is a lot smaller >and more targeted than libxml2. > >If anyone has the interest, it shouldn't be a huge job. I do caution that >fontconfig tends to extend the configuration language on a regular basis, >hence any changes which would entail duplicate maintenance would be less >desirable. > >-keith > > Does fontconfig work today on MacOS and Windows? I've been told that expat is not in the MacOS distribution, but that libxml2 is? (possible pro libxml2 issue) John
