Subject: Re: expat 1.1 (was Re: GR_Image is raster specific)
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 15:12:52 CST
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 02:52 PM 3/13/00 -0600, sam th wrote:
> >The total size of the unused files is 344k. That's about half of
> >expat. Most of this space in in expat-1.1/bin, which is mostly .dlls
> >This is just a quick estimate, and we might need a few of them.
>
> Excluding the bin directory from our mirrored copy of expat sounds
> reasonable. All we need are the sources, not James' pre-built binaries.
>
I'll get this done soon.
> >Currently, the tarball that I have posted is just a drop-in replacement
> >for expat. It currently compiles fine on my machine, and if it works on
> >others, I would nominate it for being committed. The only abi-side
> >changes would be to take advantage of the new features.
>
> To rephrase my original question, here's the test which should determine
> whether it's safe to check in Sam's upgraded version of expat:
>
> 1. Update your CVS view of the abi tree.
> 2. Remove the CVS version of expat from your machine.
> 3. Drop in Sam's package unchanged as a replacement.
> 4. Do a full build of AbiWord.
This works for me so far. Just so you know.
>
> If AbiWord builds and runs cleanly against the new expat library on at least
> 2 platforms, then it should probably be safe to check in. Since we're
> testing expat usage, the obvious things to check would be places where it's
> used:
>
> - Strings files with various encodings load properly.
> - You can save and load .ABW files without any glitches.
>
> I'm presuming that Sam has already done all these checks on his Linux box
> (right?), so that we just need someone to check it on a non-Unix platform to
> make sure that there aren't any other surprises.
>
If you mean testing various languages, I've done that. It even works with
Luke's list patch.
> Paul
>
>
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
http://bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu
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