[Tclxml-users] Re: tcldom dependencies

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

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Forest W wrote:

> >The 'src' subdirectory is independent of the top-level directory;
> >"cd src ; ./configure ; make ; make install" should do the trick.
>
> Wait a minute.  Independent?  Are you saying that, if I get the
> TclDOMPro code in tcldom/src to build and install, it will work
> without requiring any code from the parent directory, or from tclxml?

That's correct; the only external dependency is expat
(see previous message).

> If that is the case, then I should be able to get tcldom building
> cleanly by dealing with the following two matters:
>
> 1. Replace #include <xmlparse.h> with  #include <expat.h> in the
> tcldom/src code.
>
> 2. Fix the "incompatible pointer type" warnings when building the
> tcldom/src code.

Already done (see previous message), fix is now in CVS.

> Out of curiosity:
>
> Is TclDOMPro now officially called TclDOM/C?

I have no idea what the official package name is supposed to be,
or if it even has one...  Steve?

> Will it continue to be supported, or is it being dropped in favor of
> libxml2?

It's basically in maintenance mode right now.
I intend to support it as far as bug-fixes and
upgrades to new versions of Tcl and/or expat go,
but don't have time to add all the new features
implemented in the mainline TclDOM codebase.
Expect it to stay at version 2.0 for the foreseeable
future :-)


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...