Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

[Helge Hess]

Hi,

one thing which should really should me moved from gstep-base to an  
own XML library is GSXML.

AFAIK the only place in Foundation which requires XML parsing are XML  
plists, right? IMHO this should be implemented as a regular libxml2  
or probably optionally as an expat SAX handler.
I don't want DOM, XSLT or XPath handling in a base library.


Haven't looked yet in detail, but the same is very likely true for  
GSMime. Why do we need MIME handling in a base library? Properly  
doing MIME is probably one of the most complicated things on earth  
and deserves a completely seperate framework (which we already have  
at least two of, Pantomime and sope-mime).

I think the reasoning is that MIME is supposed to be necessary for  
NSURL. Which isn't true, HTTP is *not* MIME even though it reuses  
some concepts. NSURL also exposes no functionality to parse multipart  
bodies but can only represent data as NSData entities plus the HTTP  
header (which again has little to do with MIME parsing, eg no folder,  
no charset support, etc).

Greets,
  Helge
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