<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Michael Sprauer <<a href="mailto:Michael@sprauer.net">Michael@sprauer.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:03:19 -0700, Thiago Macieira <<a href="mailto:thiago@kde.org" target="_blank">thiago@kde.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Monday, 4 de April de 2011 15:00:28 Simon McVittie wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> * since QtXML and QtDBus are released together, using Qt to parse XML gives us a circular dependency: Qt contains QtDBus needs libdbus which needs QtXML which is part of Qt </blockquote> That means that, if you want to use this backend, you have to compile Qt without D-Bus, then compile D-Bus, then compile Qt again with D-Bus. In terms of time spent compiling, you're probably better off by getting expat set up... but hey, if this helps you, sure, go ahead. In any case, I'd recommend using QXmlStreamReader from QtCore instead of the DOM classes from QtXml. They're faster, more compliant and more strict, and have better error recovery. </blockquote> Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. For what I understand there are two ways to go: First: Integrate the xml parsing bits from expat into dbus lib. Like suggested here: <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35958#c1" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35958#c1</a> Second: Integrate dbus into Qt as an third-party package. I'd prefer the second. Do you think this is possible/would make any sens? Is it worth working on it? My goal is to have an DBUS running with less effort on the windows side. And I like to use id with Qt. So what way to go? </blockquote><div> I personnaly want to run dbus on Windows, but without QT. If QT is just optionnal, no problem for me. But seriously, I'm wondering why so many xml parsers are needed. If expat is sufficient, why adding other parsers ? I even think that libxml2 support should be dropped. Less code to maintain, less headaches. regards Vincent torri </div></div>