Re: [4suite-dev] Re: Expat with UTF-32 support (as implemented in

I will start off with some clarification as to what Raphael is saying is 
"UTF-32 support".  The UTF-32 (or UCS-4, pick your name) support is for 
*internal* encoding only.  That is, for non-Expat hackers, the encoding of 
XML_Char strings.

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 7:22 am, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> Raphael Bossek wrote:
> >Hi expat team,
> >
> >first, I'm the 4suite.org Debian GNU/Linux maintainer. 4suite is a
> >XML package for Python using expat today with UTF-32 support. And
> >here is the problem. Using the official libexpat library will not
> >work with 4suite.org due to missing UTF-32 support. The 4suite.org
> >team extended the expat implementation for their project themself.
> >
> >I'm interested in makeing the UTF-32 support part of the upcomming
> >2.0 release. Before making the public I would like to discuss the
> >problems about this extension. I'l like to know if such extension
> >would be accepted before 2.0 release.
>
> In principle yes, but it depends on how invasive the patch is, and how
> it affects the existing
> functionality. In any case I would say we would rather release it as
> 1.95.9, to give it some public
> exposure and find possible bugs.

A raw patch against the 4Suite CVS would be somewhat invasive as I also added 
a few optimization tweaks while implementing internal UTF-32/UCS-4 support.

> >Without the UTF-32 support in libexpat it will be mutch harder for
> >me to maintain 4suite.org package for Debian GNU/Linux. The usage
> >for libexpat instead of staticly linking the 4suite.org extension
> >into the Python modules is mandatory for mod_python environments.
> >We have to make sure only one version of expat symbols is loaded
> >into memory.
> >
> >Any idears are welcome. In the meantime I'l investigate the patch
> >done by the 4suite.org team and make a patch agains latest CVS.
> >I've also see MSVC 6.0 support in it. Is there any interest in it?

Thankfully, the patch should be only my changes as I sync'ed to CVS before 
working on the changes.

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Jeremy Kloth
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