Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Wouldn't it be possible to submit the patches for xerces-c to the Xerces
> project and get rid of the special xerces-c package for Shibboleth, at
> least in the long term?

That's not really the issue here. We could rebuild on top of 2.7 now and it
would work fine, mostly. And 3.0 already will include the only other changes
I made, in better form.

The issue isn't Xerces, it's the fact that RPM is broken when it comes to
library versioning. Anything we put out is risking a collision with somebody
who just decides to start inserting the same library into a distro. And
dealing with the distros directly is really beyond my scope of work right
now, so I think I either need to stop or sidestep.

With Red Hat itself, we have a stable target I think, so if at a given
release I have to build a certain set of packages, that should stay
consistent for the life of that release, I think. Fedora OTOH is complete
chaos.

-- Scott