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Hi Zak, thanks for the mail, I was thinking about writing such a mail myself but was to tired I guess. Yep, the CVS note to the latest ext/domxml changes state it clearly: # Testers/patches/contribs welcome. The actual changelog can be found here [1]. Also for anyone out there who has no idea about CVS: It won't help me anything filing bug reports against any released source code of PHP out there. Please use the HEAD branch when filing bug reports. See CVS instructions at http://www.php.net/anoncvs.php how to achive this. Although I don't expect a rush on this ;) I want to give out some simple rules for anyone helping us getting domxml more stable: .) If you have a reproduceable crash with small self-containing script with no other external dependencies than loading a file -> don't forget to use the bug reporting system! Do not mail me privately about it! No, I'm not lazy or whatever but I wan't to broaden the audience reading about the bugs (two eyes see less than more eyes) and it also helps me keeping track of all the problems. .) If you have a reproduceable crash but can't create a small self-containing script, there are three options: 1) still try to create one (prefered) 2) Provide backtrace in your bug report ('bt full' command, not normal bt) 3) give me access to your devel system (no, no joke. This has worked in the past, it can in the future) But no promises. .) Before reporting, try creating a testcase which is suiteable to run on the command line of PHP (read: with the CGI version). Apache is nice but it adds some extra work when handling the bugs I prefer the reproduceable scripts which use the CGI version for testing and don't contain any fancy <br /> tags but newlines and such instead. The find bug/fix it cycle is much faster without apache. Again, I'm not lazy, but I'm also using MSVC for debugging and although I'm not a windows fan I've seen myself being faster chasing down bugs with it then with gdb (doh!). .) Patches can go directly to me; but please also tell me why and what and give a testing script and not only send a diff to me. Of cousre, anyone with the proper karma is encouraged to fix it himself (you might want to check back if I'm not currently working on it). .) NEW FEATURES No, I do NOT plan to add now featuers. I'm just interesting in making the current version more stable but time doesn't permit to expand this scope. But you're still encouraged to use the bug report system to put your feature requests there or do it yourself. What I wrote done seems normal to me and I do not explicetely prefer this for domxml but anything else too. Saves mit quite lot of time. On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:19:47PM -0700, Zak Greant wrote : > Marcus Fischer has made [...] Yo, and its still MarKKKKKKKus ;-) - Markus [1] http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/php4/ext/domxml/php_domxml.c -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]