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Victor Ng

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Registered: Aug, 2003

Victor Ng programs Python for money, but he'd be programming Python anyway if he was a bum.
vlibxml2 - first usable release Posted: Oct 29, 2004 12:05 AM
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vlibxml2 release 0.1.177 Ok - so I may have jumped the gun when I first released vlibxml2. I apparently had all kinds of nasty memory leaks. I apologize for that. I’ve since merged in the memory debug code from ‘standard’ libxml2 bindings and I’ve reworked caching code as well as test code to make sure I’m not leaking memory. libxml2’s parser module maintains state and will not deallocate all of it’s memory unless you call cleanupParser() on libxml2. Unfortunately - calling cleanupParser renders libxml2 unusable. So don’t do it unless you really really need that memory back. It only amounts to 422 bytes according to my unit tests - so it’s not a ‘real’ problem anyway. The last two weeks have really shown off the difference between open source projects and closed source to me. The short version is “Closed source software can go to hell.” libxml2 is supported on the GNOME XML mailing by Daniel Veillard at Redhat. The responsiveness on the mailing list is utterly amazing. I got one response in 8 minutes, the next one in 2 hours. Compare and contrast with a closed source vendor that shall remain nameless, but the first one to pop into your head is probably the right one. 9 days and counting so far for a useful meaningful response. Repeat after me: “I will not be a share cropper.” Oh and yes - I’ve changed the license to a standard BSD license. Apparently Python people are GPL allergic. :)...

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