Re: XML idea

[Alexander Malmberg]

Helge Hess wrote:
> On 06.01.2004, at 21:57, Pete French wrote:
> > I rather meant the other way round - GNUstep needs an implementation of
> > NSXMLParser somehow, does it not?

No, it doesn't.

[snip]
> > As I said, I dont like it, and it
> > has a lot of problems apparently, but in terms of keeping all the bits
> > in GNustep Foundation that are to be found in Cocoa Foundation its
> > necessary :-(
> 
> Yes. BTW: this also includes
>    NSInputStream / NSOutputStream
>    NSError
> etc - which are all less then perfect ;-)

If they aren't good, we shouldn't add them. A good, standalone XML
framework is much better than a bad, minimalistic implementation in
-base.

A standalone framework also solves some dependency problems; having to
depend on -base being configured a certain way isn't nice.

- Alexander Malmberg