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

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <46793138.4040701 at weitershausen.de>, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> typed:
>> I hear that others have lxml working on MacOS quite nicely. Not sure 
>> whether this is with MacPorts or self-compiled libxml/libxslt (last time 
>> I tried the latter I had no luck either). Martin Aspeli and Christian 
>> Zagrodnick were the last ones I heard report success in some way or 
>> another...
> 
> I've had no trouble with lxml built from Macpors on OSX.

Ok, so that sounds like people rather install new libs, which makes it rather
unlikely that they end up trying to use something older than 2.6.20 anyway.

So, if we drop the support, we explicitly tell people to install something
newer, which is in their own interest.


> Well, except
> for the previously reported and otherwise uncommented on problem with
> XInclude, but that's reproducible under FreeBSD, and with
> cElementTree.

An XInclude problem that's reproduceable with cElementTree (which has no real
XInclude support) would most likely have been commented on. Any more hints on
what you are talking about here? Maybe ElementInclude? Are there any issues
with it?

Stefan