libxml query

Matthew Hawkins matt at mh.dropbear.id.au
Thu Jun 20 17:56:21 EST 2002


adrian (adrian at snowy.net.au) wrote:
> Are libxml and libxml2 different and independent libraries and thus both 
> be installed  OR is one a subset of the other and thus be symbolically 
> linked?

Although they are both the GNOME XML api, I believe that they are
separate libraries.  I suspect one was for GNOME 1 and the other for
GNOME 2, and I think there's API changes.  I'm not sure why they gave it
a different name instead of simply bumping the major version number in
the soname.

Symlinking is evil.

-- 
Matt




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