From kde-core-devel  Fri Jun 01 15:41:08 2001
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:41:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: PLEASE don't ! (Re: kdesupport: let's get rid of it, now.)
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On Wednesday 30 May 2001 16:02, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2001 15:28, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > But lets be consistent, we don't ship libxml2 but depend on it. So either
> > import a copy of libxml2 to kdesupport or get rid of kdesupport.
>
> Put libxml2 in kdesupport, IMHO.
>
> > IMHO we should get rid of kdesupport, we don't depend on _that_ many
> > libraries.
>
> But you have no guarantee that it will stay the same in the future.
>
> When I switched to KDE, kdesupport was a good surprise for me. No more
> endless hunting of barely known libs, instead I had one single point where
> to download things from. How refreshing that was.
>
> It's much easier for a developer to "get *" from a single ftp directory
> than to scan through a list of URLs, some being down, some being obsolete,
> some being overloaded, some pointing to the products homepage and then you
> have to hunt down the download page, etc... and in the end you have no
> guarantee that you actually got the right version. It doesn't look like a
> hassle for you because you never really had to do it. Take my word for it,
> it *IS* one big fscking hassle.

Yes, I really second this.
Due to libxml stuff and so on (libxslt) and cvs log messages which state from 
time to time that it requires now again the newest version, I didn't update 
this stuff for a long time now, exactly due to the things Guillaume mentioned.

Bye
Alex