Hi,
It is now "the end of next week". I didn't seriously expect to see a
new release appear precisely on time like clockwork, but an updated,
realistic estimate would be a help. If it's going to be a while,
I'll need to investigate getting the source from the repository (any
online help on that? so far I haven't been able to find any).
thanks,
Joanne
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Joanne Bogart
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> Hi folks,
>
> As folks who've been following this list for a while will have noticed,
> there's at least one particularly nasty bug in 2.4.0 that's driving folks
> crazy. That is, the parser sometimes reports attributes as being
> duplicates when namespaces are disabled even when that's most certainly not
> the case.
>
> But there are some other rather severe problems with 2.4.0 as well:
>
> - The parser will often read freed memory while looking for duplicate
> attributes;
> - There are a considerable number of bugs in the XML Schema API
> implementation. Most severe of these are a collection in the
> getCanonicalRepresentation code that sometimes causes it to overwrite
> random memory locations.
>
> There have been myriad bugfixes applied recently as well, particularly to
> improve thread safety, make sure the appropriate memory manager is used in
> any context, and clean up compiler warnings.
>
> So before we contemplate moving forward with development, perhaps it's a
> good time to produce a bugfix release. Normally, one would like to
> increment only the patch number and call this 2.4.1; but since so many
> files have been touched since 2.4.0, it's unreasonable to assume we will
> have binary compatibility on every platform. So that's why I'll propose to
> call this 2.5.0.
>
> I'll suggest that we should aim to publish this before the end of next
> week, and in the mean time try and fix as many outstanding bugs (and commit
> as many outstanding patches!) as possible. It would be wonderful if people
> who have patches pending which have yet to be applied could retrofit their
> patches to the current codebase, recognizing that it's unlikely any patches
> made against the 2.4.0 source will apply cleanly now.
>
> Here's my +1.
>
> Cheers!
> Neil
> Neil Graham
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> Phone: 905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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