[libxml-devel] Status of Patch #7758?

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On Dec 4, 2007 12:20 AM, Paul Dlug <paul at aps.org> wrote:
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> On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Dan Janowski wrote:
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> > Paul,
> >
> > It looks fine at first glance, but I have not had time to apply the
> > patch and examine the results. The library is a lot less fragile than
> > when I got it, but I need to be careful when adding code that is not
> > fixing a bug to be sure not to blow something else up.
>
> I understand, I'm just happy it's now usable and being maintained. The
> slow performance of REXML was killing me. That being said there's
> still a lot of work to do...
>
> > Thanks for the patch. Have any interest in contributing more?
>
> Definitely, I'm going to take a stab at fixing the namespace segfault
> I reported along with this patch submission. What do you think about
> switching to RSpec and increasing the test coverage? I'd be happy to
> kick this off. This would lead to more thorough test coverage and test
> cases that are actually descriptive, the current structure is too
> cryptic to be really useful.

Please, no RSpec at this point. We need to focus on release. Changing
test suites can wait.

Thanks,
T.