[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.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
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.
The same issue exists here, problems with arrays and such cause relocation problems at link time.One other request to the packager would be to enable Python binding support in libxslt (it's currently enabled in libxml2, but not libxslt).
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
