Re: [Audacity-devel] non-ascii labels

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
>>> Yes, we are using expat and it only support a few encodings.  The
>>> ones we'd use are UTF-8 and/or UTF-16.
>> It's also a very old version of expat that's bundled in the audacity
>> lib-src directory.
> Actually one of the reasons I really like the old version of expat is
> that it's small and simple, it doesn't try to do too much.  Expat 2.0
> is twice as many lines of code!  Does it actually provide us with any
> new features that we need?
>
> Of course, that's nothing compared to libxml2, which is more than 10x
> the number of lines of code!  Holy cow, we could have more lines of
> code to parse XML than the rest of Audacity combined!
>
> Okay, expat 2.0 isn't looking that bad anymore!

I was looking at it more to see if we could avoid bundling our own custom
version of expat and dynamically link a system copy instead on Linux. Not
so much of an issue with code size, but I seem to end up compiling it a
lot for no good reason.

Richard