Dear Pavol,
thanks for your report.
On Thu Mar 20 12:45:39 2014, p.safarik@cgi.com wrote:
Show quoted text> Dear all,
>
> without being entirely certain, it seems to me that with
>
> XML-LibXML-2.0113
> perl-5.18.2-2
> libxml2-2.9.1-5
>
> on my acrhlin machine (3.13.6-1-ARCH), the ::Document toString(2) sub
> doesn't behave as it used to.
>
> In particular I obtain the same output for toString({0,1,2}), while
> the xmllint does work as it used to, i.e. the output formatting
> changes with --format (or as of the newer version of libxml2 with
> --pretty {0,1,2}).
>
> As far as I could see this seems to be due to some new way the libxml2
> works? (I didn't find any relevant changes in perl code on my own).
>
This is quite vague and hard-to-reproduce. Please provide a reproducing example of one-or-more scripts that reproduce the problem. "Code talks" like they say. You can attach the code to this message.
Furthermore, I should note that I recently had to decomission two VMs - one of Arch Linux and one of a derivative with a more user-friendly installer (can't exactly remember how it was called), because pacman -Syu threw a fit and refused to properly upgrade the system. I can try installing a new version of this Arch Linux derivative, but would prefer to avoid it , unless I can find a way to install Arch Linux on a VM automatically (using something like vagrant). If you can reproduce that issue inside a VM of a different distribution, with less user-hostile and buggy installation and upgrade processes, that would be appreciated (I think Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and Mageia should all be OK, and I can tolerate installing a throwaway VM of Fedora).
You can try installing all the required things directly from source.
Show quoted text> Independently on whether I am right and there is indeed a discrepancy
> in the behaviour or not, thank you very much for creating LibXML in
> the first place and, even more so, for its maintenance!
You're welcome, but please provide us with the necessary inputs.
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> Best regards,
> Pavol
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
