xsltproc segfaults after upgrading to docbook xsl stylesheetsv1.60.1

[Patrick Eisenacher]

Nobody was lashing at anybody. So let's stay with this, Larry.

Patrick

lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com schrieb:
> If you're frustrated, imagine how frustrated Rob is receiving all these
> complaints for his efforts to make this package available to you (at any
> version level).  Makes one wonder why anyone would spend their time to 
> support a package.  Anyway, it's a point to ponder the next time you are
> frustrated with a particular package and feel like you'd like to lash out
> at someone.
> 
> Larry
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Patrick Eisenacher eisenacher@fillmore-labs.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:15:28 +0100
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com, rbcollins@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: xsltproc segfaults after upgrading to docbook xsl
> stylesheetsv1.60.1
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I'm waiting already for more than a month for this to happen. Needless 
> to say, I'm pretty frustrated. But despite Robert claiming to take care 
> of this in his initial response you cited below, no update was ever 
> published. All further inquiries were silently ignored. The 
> interpretation of this behaviour and consequences are up to you.
> 
> Right now, Cygwin is not usable for XML editing. I recommend switching 
> over to some other *nix and a VM. Alternatively you can use the Windows 
> ports of the xml libaries provided by Igor Zlatkovic. His ports are 
> always up to date: http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html
> 
> 
> Disappointed,
> Patrick
> 
> 
>>Robert Collins said on 19 Feb 2003 07:57:58 +1100:
>>
>>>Yes, and this takes the current version from 'old' to 'old + buggy'.
>>>I've upped my priority to get a new release out. Uhmm, end of the week
>>>should do it.
>>
>>Please, could we/you somehow get xsltproc & associated libs in the cygwin 
>>installation repository brought up-to-date? I'm trying to use xsltproc
> 
> with 
> 
>>some docbook stuff (we're using docbook to write the next phase of 
>>ProjectLiberty specs, and I use cygwin as my *nix environment), and said 
>>docbook stuff uses xinclude. The old xsltproc et al included (still) in
> 
> the 
> 
>>cygwin install (I updated this morning) barfs on the xinclude stuff, plus
> 
> it 
> 
>>doesn't properly handle (eg skip over) included mediaobjects (eg EPS).
> 
> The 
> 
>>latest version of xsltproc et al (the various *xml* libs) handles both of 
>>these just fine.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>JeffH



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