libxml-devel@rubyforge.org Hi everyone,
As you might have guessed by the recent email traffic, I've dived into the libxml (and libxslt) ruby bindings since I need them MapBuzz.
Thanks to Sean for developing the bindings and Dan for reworking the memory model. From what I can tell, the library is actually is pretty good shape, there just a few little gotchas left that people are running into.
So to get things moving again, I took the liberty to push out a new release of libxml-ruby, 0.6.0. It fixes a number of memory issues and adds Windows support. I am sure there are still remaining memory issues. If everyone can update their gems and reports any bugs they run into, I'll give it a try and fixing them.
I also have a new version of libxslt-ruby, but first need commit rights to push a release.
Thanks, Charlie ---------- Changes:* Fixed memory allocation errors in Windows. On Windows, it is essential that the same library that allocates memory must free it. Thus ALLOC calls must be matched to ruby_xfree calls, which they were not. In addition, in one case Ruby was allocating memory to be freed by libxml. On Windows, that's a segmentation fault. On Linux it might fly, but still seems like a bad idea.
* Fixed segmentation fault in xml reader expand (same xml tree freed twice)* Applied a number of patches from Tom Bagby, including fixes for xpath segmentation faults and fixes for various memory leaks
* Cleaned up a number of compiler warnings* Renamed libxml_so.so to libxml_ruby.so (same for xslt). That wasn't actually my original intention, but um, it kind of sort of happened. It should not be noticeable from an end-user perspective.
* Added rake files for building with MingW* Added rake files for packing gems. Note that I did this outside the existing rake tasks because I didn't see how they were actually building the gems.
* Cleaned up the tests and added a few more based on bug reports from the Tracker and mailing list.
* Cleaned out the patch queue and went through about 1/2 the bug list
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