Re: [vote]: proposal for a Xerces-C 2.5.0 release

[PeiYong Zhang]

+1

PeiYong

Neil Graham/Toronto/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/03/2004 08:56:26 PM:

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> Hi folks,
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> As folks who've been following this list for a while will have noticed,
> there's at least one particularly nasty bug in 2.4.0 that's driving folks
> crazy.  That is, the parser sometimes reports attributes as being
> duplicates when namespaces are disabled even when that's most certainly not
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> But there are some other rather severe problems with 2.4.0 as well:
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> - The parser will often read freed memory while looking for duplicate
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> - There are a considerable number of bugs in the XML Schema API
> implementation.  Most severe of these are a collection in the
> getCanonicalRepresentation code that sometimes causes it to overwrite
> random memory locations.
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> There have been myriad bugfixes applied recently as well, particularly to
> improve thread safety, make sure the appropriate memory manager is used in
> any context, and clean up compiler warnings.
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> So before we contemplate moving forward with development, perhaps it's a
> good time to produce a bugfix release.  Normally, one would like to
> increment only the patch number and call this 2.4.1; but since so many
> files have been touched since 2.4.0, it's unreasonable to assume we will
> have binary compatibility on every platform.  So that's why I'll propose to
> call this 2.5.0.
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> I'll suggest that we should aim to publish this before the end of next
> week, and in the mean time try and fix as many outstanding bugs (and commit
> as many outstanding patches!) as possible.  It would be wonderful if people
> who have patches pending which have yet to be applied could retrofit their
> patches to the current codebase, recognizing that it's unlikely any patches
> made against the 2.4.0 source will apply cleanly now.
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> Here's my +1.
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> Cheers!
> Neil
> Neil Graham
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> Phone:  905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
> E-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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