Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.7.4

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:00:16PM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Better late than never, but an awful lot of pending bug got fixed.
> > Still no major improvement except adding symbol versioning to libxml2
> > shared libs, which is fairy important for long term maintainance, but
> > not worth jumping to 2.8.0
> >
> >    Tarball and signed rpms available at
> >      ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/
> >
> > There are still a few things which I would have loved to put in the
> > release like per context error handling and the like but I prefer a
> > (nearly) bug fix only release that people can upgrade to without
> > troubles and then work on changing more stuff
>
> Daniel, thanks a lot for this release. That's clearly the longest list of
> bug fixes in a libxml2 release, ever.

  Yeah, I accumulated an awful lot of backlog in the last 3 years
as I'm concentrating on libvirt now, I took the summer slowdown
as an opportunity to fix most of what was looking fixeable without
too much crazyness.

Daniel

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