Re: [xml] libxml questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 04:03:35PM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> >> No, I got it.. its working.. but the oldest tarball I see there is
> >> 2.6.20 so having problem running against the libxml2 which is
> currently
> >> shipped with the distro, most of them are still on 2.6.17... and no
> test
> >> tarball available for that..  Are these test forward compatible I
> mean
> >> can I run 2.6.17 test against 2.6.22 libxml2?
> >
> >  it probably won't work:
> >    - because the API extended
> >    - because testing schemas regression tests on older releases won't
> >      work either.
> 
> My understanding is that API test should work as library has stable
> API/ABI, I understand that new API will not be tested if added later. Is
> it correct understanding?

  yes, but standalone test were added lately, before it was just "make tests"
in the build tree. And the Schemas support is a work in progress.
 2.6.17 has no runtest or runsuite, I'm not sure about testapi

Daniel

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