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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Which libxml2/libxslt for 3.4.0 ?
From:       Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date:       2005-03-29 8:54:01
Message-ID: 200503290901.46608.frans.englich () telia ! com
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On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:46, Pavel Troller wrote:
> Hi, dear KDE developers!
>   Before my first 3.4.0 experience, I upgraded a lot of system libraries
> and support programs to satisfy KDE as best as possible.
>   After the compilation, I've found many KDE apps unstable. The most
> horrible one was kopete, which crashed for example when a chat window was
> closed or attempt to change the appearance made. I made some bt's and found
> that it always crashes in libxml2. So I downgraded to the version used
> formerly for a long time, and it works! No more crashes in kopete as well
> as in other apps.
>   The version I'm currently on, is libxml-2.5.11 and libxslt-1.0.33. I

FWIW, those versions are "ancient", it's not representative that users have 
those. I would rather say the other way around: it's surprising your current 
setup works.

> tried to upgrade to libxml-2.6.18 and libxslt-1.1.13, but stability issues
> were unacceptable.

Can't comment, but when reproducible, standalone test cases exists and it's 
clear it's in libxml/xslt, they should be submitted[1] to the developers, who 
to my experience always are happy to fix them,


		Frans

1.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
 
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