Bravo! Now that you mention the idea, it seems obvious, and I appreciate your willingness to step up to the plate and make it happen.
One thing I'm unsure of, though, is who would build all the pre-compiled libraries. Are you (Boris) in a position to build them all (25, by my count), or do you know who can? (Sadly, all I can build is 32-bit MSVC, which I imagine is already covered.) -----Original Message----- From: Boris Kolpackov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Xerces-C++ 2.8.0 release plan Hi, [My original message didn't get through so this is a re-post.] It's been almost two years since the release of Xerces-C++ 2.7.0. While there are preparations to release 3.0 soon, many existing applications won't be able to use 3.0 immediately because of the extensive API changes but would greatly benefit from a large number of bug fixes that have been committed to the xerces-2.7 branch. For example, the tool I am working on does not compile with the 3.0 code and if I change the code to use 3.0 interfaces it will stop compiling with 2.7. I also regularly receive bug reports against Xerces-C++ on our mailing list only to find out that they were fixed years ago. I have to routinely extract and send patches for issues like 1281, 1546 (schema bugs that affect several widely-used schemas, such as GML, COLLADA, etc.) and 1658 (a binary stream bug that makes Xerces-C++ 2.7.0 virtually unusable on Solaris). I therefore would like to volunteer as a release manager for 2.8.0. Once 2.8.0 is released, I am prepared to act as a release manager and push for 3.0. The xerces-2.7 branch appears to be stable. I also have the following improvements ready: * Support for g++ on AIX and HP-UX. * Auto-detection of aCC6 vs aCC3 in runConfigure. * Verbose mode (gmake VERBOSE=1) * Changed optimization level for GNU/Linux from -O to -O2 * Project files for VS 2005. * Support for 64 bit Windows build. * Optimized DOM parsing (25-30% improvement), see XERCESC-1735 for details: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1735 Xerces-C++ is normally released with pre-compiled libraries for various platforms. For the 2.8.0 release the proposed list of platforms/compilers is as follows: 32 bit: Windows - MSVC 7.1 Windows - MSVC 8.0 GNU/Linux - g++ 3.4.x AIX 5.3 - xlC 7 Solaris 2.10 - Sun C++ 5.7 and g++ 3.4.x, both SPARC and x86 HP-UX 11.x - aCC A.03.x, PA-RISC HP-UX 11.x - aCC A.06.x, IA64 Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) - g++ 4.0, both PPC and x86 64 bit: Windows - MSVC 8.0 GNU/Linux - g++ 3.4.x AIX 5.3 - xlC 7 Solaris 2.10 - Sun C++ 5.7 and g++ 3.4.x, both SPARC and x86-64 HP-UX 11.x - aCC A.03.x, PA-RISC HP-UX 11.x - aCC A.06.x, IA64 I propose we take the following next steps in order to release 2.8.0 in a timely manner: 1. Announce this plan on the c-users mailing list and ask for any critical issues that the community feels need to be addressed. 2. Package and announce a release candidate. Test it on the above platforms. Fix any uncovered issues. Any feedback on this plan and/or the platforms list is appreciated. Thanks, Boris -- Boris Kolpackov Code Synthesis Tools CC http://www.codesynthesis.com Open-Source, Cross-Platform C++ XML Data Binding --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
