Re: Patch: FYI: disable XML service files

[Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Gary Benson writes:
> > Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > Gary Benson writes:
> > > > However, making xerces work in the classpath like this will
> > > > mean a whole load of things that have both xml-commons-apis
> > > > and xerces in the classpath but not endorsed (eg most
> > > > everything in Fedora) will now be running xerces with
> > > > libgcj's javax.xml,
> > > 
> > > Which, unless I am very much mistaken, is what has always
> > > happened.
> > 
> > No.  Prior to the service files being removed the only way to get
> > xerces to be used was to endorse it.  Until now everything has
> > been using libgcj for both the interface and the implementation.
> 
> No, that is certainly not true.

It is true in the sense that immediately prior to the service files
being removed the only way to get xerces to be used was to endorse it.
Which is the sense I meant it.

> See my prior postings in this thread, and in particular the test
> using gcj Version 4.2.  Until this latest classpath import, we
> haven't been using the service files in libgcj at all, so if Xerces
> was in the classpath we used it.

Ok, this makes me a lot happier about this patch going into Fedora.

Cheers,
Gary