[Yum-devel] cElementTree

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:28 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-03 at 20:48 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > other questions:
> >  1. does cElementTree work with python 2.2? Does iterparse()? If not
> > then we get hung up making this work on rhel3 :(
> 
> Yes to all.
> 
> >  2. what's the cElementTree maintenance and license?
> 
> >From setup.py: license="Python (MIT style)", so it's fine. WRT
> maintenance I think Ryan can answer that better, but the last release
> was in January, and it seems actively maintained. Moreover, it's largely
> just a pythonized frontend to expat -- the code itself is about 2500
> lines, which is downright laconic when it comes to C.
> 
> I've actually just managed to build it with the system's expat, so it
> doesn't statically link the bundled expat libs. If you haven't yet built
> the RPMs for ElementTree and cElementTree, I'd like to take a look at
> making them.

I was actually planning on combining the packages into one package. So
instead of two elementTree packages needed we just install one and get
them both.

it makes sense anyway.

-sv