Re: [xml] Release candidate 1 of libxml2 2.8.0

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Daniel Veillard, 15.05.2012 14:48:
>   I finally managed to go though all the patches which accumulated in
> Gnome bugzilla and do the various necessary cleanups to try to get a
> release. There is however *many* changes, especially on the portability
> side which I just can't test myself (including many changes on various
> Windows toolchains). So I just made a release candidate of 2.8.0
>
>    ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/
>
> look for libxml2-2.8.0-rc1.tar.gz, there is also rpms generated on my
> Fedora 16 box for those interested.
> The code seems to work okay, I have been running with the changes as
> I added them and my system didn't blew up, it passes valgrind, there
> doesn't seems to be leaks at least on the main paths, so I think it's
> time for more general testing.
>  Please give it a try, I will make other rc release if needed, and
> will try to shoot for a final 2.8.0 release a week from now ! I know a
> number of people waited for an official release, please help me finish
> by testing it and report problems if you find some :-)

Didn't do any extensive testing, but it builds and tests fine for me with lxml.


>   thanks in advance,

Thanks Daniel!

Stefan