Re: [xml] A few Windows specific issues

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:51:58PM +0200, Igor  Zlatkovic wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
>
> I am hopelessly overburdened at the moment, I haven't even seen these
> bug reports :-) I will give it an hour or two during the weekend. I
> guess I'll have a patch for you by monday.

  No problem, don't worry. It's not urgent, I probably won't make a release
before the end of next week. And other should feel free to have a look too !

> Other than that, more work is needed at the moment, such as iconv and
> pthreads support under Win32. Iconv compiles out of the box. Pthreads
> implementation I would use is available at
> http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/. Hope I'll have libxml2
> running with these by the end of the next week.

  hum it seems to have eerything needed to the port to be successful.
A "native" port could have been done too.
  
> > My suggestion is to get a Windows path converter to convert
> > Windows filename to valid URI or URI-References and have it
> > plugged in a couple of critical places in libxml to avoid
> > such problem for good.
>
> Reasonable. I'll try to handle it during the weekend and produce few
> functions which do the conversion. Should questions arise, you will be
> torn from your bed in the middle of the night :-)

  Sure :-), but I just need the function, I know exactly where to place
calls to it.

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Veillard      | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/
veillard redhat com  | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/