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Re: A packaging scheme...



On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:51:55AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> The main strength of the current approach is that it allows two different 
> implementations of SAX to live together, letting the user chose. Doing 
> otherwise would mean having a form of arbitration, to decide which one will be 
> lgpl.xml.sax and which one will be... dropped?

Not necessarily dropped, but which will be used in the common library.

This is exactly analogous to, say, the selection of thread implementations
for glibc 2.0. You are still free to use some other thread model if you care
to, but the default one that most people write to is the one in glibc that
is bound to the kernel threads.

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