p5-xml-simple and expat vs. pureperl

[Matthew Ross]

XML::Simple will use XML::SAX if it is installed.  If it does not find  
that, it will use XML::Parser.
If you uninstall p5-xml-sax, before you install p5-xml-simple, it  
should install without any issues.

Any suggestions on how to handle this better for people that have p5- 
xml-sax installed?

Some ideas:
1) Patch Makefile.PL to use XML::Parser first by default.
2) Depend on p5-xml-sax-expat instead. Should the p5-xml-sax-expat  
port chage/create the SAX.ini file?

For more info:
http://search.cpan.org/src/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.16/README
http://search.cpan.org/src/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.16/Makefile.PL

On Jan 10, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Brian Hirt wrote:

> The latest version of XML::Simple won't build with a pure perl  
> implementation of XML::Simple::PurePerl.  This is the error I'm  
> getting:
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>   Fatal error: Your default XML parser (XML::SAX::PurePerl) is broken.
>
>   There are known bugs in the PurePerl parser included with version  
> 0.13
>   and 0.14 of XML::SAX.  The XML::Simple tests will fail with this  
> parser.
>
>   One way to avoid the problem is to install XML::SAX::Expat - it will
>   install itself as the system default XML parser and then you will  
> be able
>   to install XML::Simple successfully.  XML::SAX::Expat is also much  
> faster
>   than XML::SAX::PurePerl so you probably want it anyway.
>
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> It seems there should be a dependency for p5-xml-sax-expat,
>
> Even with the expat version installed, it wouldn't build because it  
> seems like when installed via port doesn't it doesn't set itself up  
> as the default parser.
>
> I ended up creating a SAX.ini with the following line:
> 	ParserPackage = XML::SAX::Expat (0.37)
>
> Then I installed p5-xml-sax-expat and then installed p5-xml-simple
>
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