[lxml-dev] tests crash on libxml2 2.6.19 - drop support?

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> But I remember that MacOS X usually ships with pretty old versions, and I
> think I recall one of them being 2.6.16 and the other being 2.6.19. So taking
> this decision would mean dropping out-of-the-box support for those MacOS
> versions. Can anyone please verify that these were the versions in question?
> What are the lib versions that current MacOS systems ship with? And which OS
> versions would we drop support for if lxml 1.3 stopped running under 2.6.19?

I also wonder whether any MacOS users are actually successfully using 
these versions of libxml2 on their platform. I have the impression a lot 
of Mac OS users install their own libxml2 versions to work around issues 
they have with the OS supplied ones.

If this is the general pattern, we'd not have a lot of problems dropping 
support for these as they don't work anyway.

Regards,

Martijn