libxml query

[Brad Hards]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:56, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> 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.
http://www.xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Installati

> Symlinking is evil.
Especially if you want stuff to work afterwards.

Brad
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