Re: [xml] Release candidate 1 of libxml2 2.8.0

[Rob Richards <rrichards cdatazone org>]

Win32 build and tests look good

Rob

On 5/15/12 8:48 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>    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 :-)
>
>    thanks in advance,
>
> Daniel