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Re: new libxml2 / libxslt packages?
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
- To: alexl at users dot sourceforge dot net
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:11:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: new libxml2 / libxslt packages?
- References: <7ubs279sc3.fsf@allele2.biol.berkeley.edu>
alexl@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
I was wondering whether there were plans to release new versions of
libxml2 and libxslt. The versions that are part of Cygnus now are all
rather old (by almost a year in the case of libxslt).
The current versions are:
libxml2-2.4.23 Jul 22 2002
libxslt-1.0.13 Mar 17 2002
The latest versions are:
libxml2-2.5.1 Jan 08 2003
libxslt-1.0.24 Jan 14 2003
I'm sure Robert's aware of this, but he's got enough to do
without having to update these. They work quite fine at
their current version, so I'll let him decide when it is
appopriate to update.
Another issue is that the python binding requires some
reworking in 2.5.1, because it currently contains some
relocation issues which prevent it from properly linking.
This could also be fixed with a newer ld, which supports
pseudo relocations.
One other request to the packager would be to enable Python binding
support in libxslt (it's currently enabled in libxml2, but not
libxslt).
The same issue exists here, problems with arrays and such
cause relocation problems at link time.
On a side note, I think it might be worth noting that
turning pthreads "on" works quite well. It passes the test
suite and I've noticed no side-effects other then a possible
performance increase. If and when you do get around to
updating the packages robert, perhaps you might considier
turning them on.
Cheers,
Nicholas