Re: Time for a new release?

"Dan Nicholson" <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:48:38 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.expat.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Karl Waclawek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There only been a couple of bugfixes since the 2.0.1 release, but
>> maybe it's time to get them out to everyone. Plus, I'd like to see the
>> expat pkg-config file get into a tarball. What do you think?
>>
>
> I agree. there should be a new release.
>
> The problem for me is, I am far from being a Unix/Linux build expert, so I
> have no idea how important pkg-config is, and how to evaluate it.
> Unfortunately, we don't have anyone active on the Unix/Linux side right now.
> Maybe Fred or Sebastian will pick up the torch.

Well, I wrote the pkg-config patch, and I'm involved in a lot of
different projects helping with packaging. pkg-config is really
helpful for another project that wants to depend on expat. A lot of
Linux distros already ship an expat pkg-config file.

I haven't tried to build expat from CVS in a while, but I don't recall
there being any problems on Linux. I'll make sure that it still works,
though, and send patches for anything wrong I see.

--
Dan