Re: [xml] New version of libxml

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From: James LewisMoss (dres@ioa.com)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1999 - 21:26:32 EDT

>>>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:10:57 -0400, Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org> said:

I'm working on a debian packages to test with, and had a question.

 Daniel> I'm about to release a version 1.5.0, with the following
 Daniel> added:

 Daniel> - added most of the XML validation, it's in an usable state,
 Daniel> though some parts like ID checks are missing.
 Daniel> - improved the xpath implementation, still no attributes/ID
 Daniel> or comparisons but path queries should work
 Daniel> - added quite a few tests
 Daniel> - lots of bugfixes
 Daniel> - this should fix the isinf and isnan not existing on Solaris
 Daniel> and AIX platforms
 Daniel> - For RPM users, the 1.5.0 RPM exports both libxml.so.0 and
 Daniel> libxml.so.1 I did some compatibility tests with existing
 Daniel> RPMs of gnumeric and gnorpm. It should be possible to
 Daniel> update RedHat-6.0 setup with those RPMs.

Does this mean that the library is backwards compatible and it'd be
safe to install it as libxml.so.0 as well as libxml.so.1?

Just checking.
Thanks
Dres

 Daniel> some early feedback om the developers already using libxml
 Daniel> is extemely
 Daniel> welcome before the big push,

gnotes is using libxml (so I figured I'd test :). 

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