Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/24/10:45:03
Nobody was lashing at anybody. So let's stay with this, Larry.
Patrick
lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT 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 AT fillmore-labs DOT com
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:15:28 +0100
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Jeff DOT Hodges AT KingsMountain DOT com, rbcollins AT cygwin DOT 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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