Re: gnome-xml: patch submitted


Subject: Re: gnome-xml: patch submitted
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 13:45:08 CDT


BTW, please CC patches to abiword-dev so that developers can comment on
them. patches@abisource.com goes directly to SourceGear Inc. and there is
actually more work done from the community these days.

Thanks,
Aaron Lehmann

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Goran Thyni wrote:

>
> I found the problems,
> version 1.x of libxml which I had installed did not
> have mature UTF-8 support. Upgrading solved the problems.
> So gnome-xml *requires* libxml 2.* available from
> http://xmlsoft.org/
>
> I have submitted a patch to <patches@abisource.com>
> hopefully there are no issues and it will get submitted
> soon.
>
> patch comments:
> ------------------------------------
> No known breakage.
> Tested OK with:
> Build Options: LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:On Gnome:Off Gnome-XML:Off
> Build Options: LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:On Gnome:On Gnome-XML:Off
> Build Options: LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:On Gnome:On Gnome-XML:On
>
> * first step in support for libxml aka gnome-xml
> * enable with ABI_OPT_GNOME_XML2
> * cpp symbol is HAVE_GNOME_XML2
> * lots of casting where g++ says "unsigned char = char" and vice versa
> is an error
>
> requires libxml version 2.x, see:
> http://xmlsoft.org/
> --------------------------------------
>
> for the curious the patch is available at:
> http://kirra.net/abi/
>
> regards,
> Göran.
>
>



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