Those things have never seemed especially hard for me. Just how easy do you want things to be?

I'm not sure why you have to track down expat: it's not tough to find. There are even binaries for AIX (which I found by Googling "expat AIX" and following the top link).

I'd rather not have expat as part of XML::Parser. I'll download the latest version and compile it myself. The current version of expat doesn't have to get out of step with the one that would get locked in with a version of XML::Parser. I can even update them separately.

Installing libraries isn't that hard, and installing a C compiler isn't that hard (although it can be lengthy). Distributing them with the modules isn't going to make that any simpler.

The original post complains that we even deign to use something written in C, and correctly says that if you don't like it, you can upload the pure Perl version to CPAN. I'd rather just use what other people have already than reinvent the wheel. :)

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

In reply to Re^3: Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by brian_d_foy
in thread Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by g0n

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