Re: [agtk-devel] What version of xerces-c to build on linux

[Steve C. <ste...@mq...>]

Haejoong Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please use the "Toward-2_0" branch for the latest 2.0.x code.

Thanks, that fixed it. I'm looking at the agfio code and have a comment
or two.

it doesn't work without LD_LIBRARY_PATH being set, presumably some
other magic is needed on windows. There seems little need for this
since you know where the .so files are installed (or at least
where they were) and can look there and load the files
via a direct path. dlopen will take an absolute path
name and just load the file rather than having to search
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Can I suggest the code be changed to try
loading from the known location, then backing off to the current
strategy if this fails.  I'm willing to try making this change if
there is support.

I note that the install location of each plugin shared library is
written in the Makefile.am in the plugin directory. Is there an
automake way of forcing this from above so that we can rely on
the value rather than hoping that plugin dirs conform?

On a different note, what measures are in place to ensure consistent
handling of character encodings through different file formats?
Looking at the CAG format I can't see that it would ensure
consistent output of unicode strings. I see that internally things
use the C++ string type, has there been any thought to using wstring 
instead? This is clearly an issue if something like CAG is supposed to 
be an alternative to the XML format.  It also looks like plain char *
strings are being used in the scripting interface. It seems a shame to 
close the door on using non-ascii encodings in this day and age.

Steve