[libxml-devel] Random crashes

[Sean Chittenden]

> I have contemplated abandoning support, but I would rather not. Being
> the only coder makes it harder as ultimately every bug is my problem.
> But that is not the issue, ruby 1.8 is. I have considered moving to
> rubinius to see if their compatibilty api is better than the original.
> But that may yield nothing as it could work fine there. 1.9 I have not
> considered, but valgrind is sort of a white elephant since the GC
> screws things up without a trace before the real problem occurs.

Hey Dan.  Check out this post:

http://sean.chittenden.org/news/2008/01/12/

I think that trick may be infinitely more useful in debugging the kind  
of class of problem you're describing.

Your call for developer support is not falling on deft ears and I can  
sympathize with the burden of support after a piece of software is  
written.  #{job} + #{real_life} + #{oss_time} ?  Guess which gets  
squeezed first.  The economics of open source suck on the development  
side of things.  :-/  -sc

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