Thanks Alberto,
1) The release information appears to have hit a brick wall last autumn/fall (2004-9-29 to be precise). That is the last date on the Release info page. Things were going strong with many updates per day until then, then nothing. Since I monitor this mailing list, I know that's not true, but to someone coming fresh to the site, that is the impression.
The web page should be clearer on this: the list is titled "Release Information of Xerces-C++ 2.6.0", as that is the list of bugs/enhancements that have been shipped as version 2.6. It is not a daily report of the commits.
Point taken about the release notes. It just looks so stark as it is.
If the notes are just about 2.6.0, I don't see why we have the dates. All of the listed bug fixes would have been included in the release, so the date becomes irrelevant. The dated list seems to imply a running update, and those updates seem to have abruptly stopped. So better to simply list the bug fixes without dates.
But we have to make the development look as though its alive for someone who browses to the page (catch 'em while you can!).
The rule is that the web is updated every time a new release is out, with material regarding only that release; there is then the mailing list for asking help/proposing changes ([email protected]), a mailing list that broadcasts the commits done in CVS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and a bug tracking facility (http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10510)Well, that last link is new to me. I never got to that before (which proves that I haven't explored the site thoroughly). There is a link to this area in the 'Bug-Reporting' section, but the link there is to the _unresolved_ bugs. Maybe a link to the resolved bugs would be useful in the Release Info area, to show that work continues (perhaps titled 'Bugs resolved since 2.6.0 available in CVS repository')
Actually your whole paragraph [after the first semi colon] would be useful early on when a new user comes across this project. Perhaps it could become a fourth paragraph in the first overview section at the beginning of the 'Readme' section of the Xerces C++ section. This new paragraph would be to explain how the project is managed which is not covered in the Readme.
The Win32 platform listed on the web is NT because that is the machine used to build the Win32 binaries (to be precise, the binary that can be downloaded from the Download page has been built using "Windows NT 4.0 SP5 compiled with MSVC 6.0 SP3". As Xerces-C++ is just a library, that binary package works also on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
Understood. That last bit is important though. As a new user coming across this, one gets to the 'Installation' and the 'Download' sections, and neither mention the newer Windows OSes.
What you ask is (I think, but correct me if I am wrong) an installer that creates an entry in the Start menu and maybe adds the include and lib directories to the environment; ..
Yes, I hadn't got as far as thinking of that. Coming mainly from the Macintosh environment, I am used to having my hand held - you click on a link and it all instals and configures itself, without any command line. Certainly one click would be useful to get something that works (so Samples - or at least one - would be the obvious solution).
.. but apart from a "Documentation" entry, what should be listed there? Samples are command line based, and invoking them is useless without specifying an argument. Should it contain a link to start the MSDEV IDE (btw, which one? VC6, VS2002, VS2003, Borland)?. What else?
I haven't got as far as a working installation yet, so I can't comment on the actual samples. Surely a clickable (or a Startmenu) item can run an application and supply arguments? Maybe the 'application' is a simple front end to feed the sample to the compiled Xerces code and display the result, so that the command line is not necessary and we don't need options for different compilers/IDEs.
No, I'm not thinking of starting an IDE (we can't assume that one is available - e.g. I might investigate this on my home machine but actually want to use it on a work development machine). What I would like to be able to do is to see the working interface of the sample (any text editor can open it, even though we're all used to nicely coloured IDE displays), and yes, see the documentation (not seen that yet either).
These comments are all coming off the top of my head, so don't take them as too final.
I will be able to give more feedback when I get it working, but this 'verify the integrity' has me beaten. Last time I tried (maybe 15 months ago) I simply ignored this, and I suspect that's what most Windows users have been doing.
This time, I am trying to follow along properly. My PC (about 1 year old) doesn't have pgpk or pgp or gpg installed, and when I click on the [PGP] web link, it simply opens the page in the browser, whereas I was expecting it to download the PGP signature for use on my PC.
So, I'm still working on it.
Andrew
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