[Framework-Team] Re: wicked - lxml dependency?

[Hanno Schlichting]

whit wrote:
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> Is lxml a real dependency for the functionality we use in Plone or is it
>> optional or only required to run the tests?
>>   
> it's used in the tests (to strip whitespace). iirc, any working version
> of libxml2 should work(both for the test and lxml, though lxml needs to
> be rather current).  lxml or libxml is not needed for any of wicked's
> functionality.

Ah ok, great. I got lxml running on Windows (as there's a pre-built
binary release) and all tests did indeed pass.

Thx for the clarification,
Hanno