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lxml became the default in 83b2cdd, see the commit message for a bit more info. Essentially, the problem is:
- We really want a default value for the parser, because we want reproducibility (not having a default would mean that the same program using MechanicalSoup would behave differently depending on what is installed on the machine where it runs).
- lxml is rather clearly the best default in terms of features and performance, so although it adds a dependency we chose it as default. And therefore it has to be a dependency, otherwise the default configuration would be broken.
I believe the simplest option for people who need to run MechanicalSoup on machines where a C compiler isn't installed is to patch it, as you did. We could also try to publish a MechanicalSoup-lite, or so, variant where lxml would not be a dependency but that would probably be a lot of trouble for a very small number of users. Up to now, I think we never got this request (except your message obviously).
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@moy Thanks reply. I think the idea of releasing a lite version is good enough.
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