Hi Shmuel,
On Thu, 9 May 2013 16:44:10 +0900
Shmuel Fomberg <shmuelfomb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >
> > These failures should not be happening, and they are likely caused by old
> > versions of libxml2 and/or libxslt. Now, one option would be to require
> > only
> > the latest version in XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT, but this may
> > inconvenience
> > some users of older systems.
> >
> > Is there a better alternative?
> >
>
> So... you want to use some features that new versions libxml2 have, but
> want XML::LibXML support any version of libxml2.
No, the new features are not the problem. The problem is that newer versions of
libxml2 and libxslt contain some bug fixes, and with older versions without
these bug fixes, the tests fail.
> How about making a middle-man module, XML::LibXML::SupportsFancyFeature,
> that will refuse to install for old libxml installation? Then you module
> can depend on it.
That won't be a good solution like I said.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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