Re: [xml] Release candidate 2 of libxml2 2.8.0

[Rob Richards <rrichards cdatazone org>]

The mingw change for Bug 676427 ends up breaking for windows VS builds 
as the change affects them and not just mingw. Basically by remove the 
definitions, I end up with a bunch of unresolved external symbol errors. 
I'm going to be jumping on a plane in a few hours so not sure if I'm 
going that have time to fix that before I leave.

Rob

On 5/20/12 11:25 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:48:12PM +0800, 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.
>    Thanks everybody for he rc1 feedback !!!
> I just made a release candidate 2 which includes Roumen patch changing
> slightly the way trio is detected/used on the Windows builds. Since
> that's not something I can check I prefer to make a new candidate
> release, hopefully people can give it a try.
>
>    ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.8.0-rc2.tar.gz
>
> And unless testing show some regression, I think I will push the new
> release in two days, possibly Wednesday,
>
>    thanks again !
>
> Daniel