[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58004] [octave-forge] (io) xmlread.m makes Octave crash

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #58004 (project octave):

Obviously the reason is what I wrote in comment #0.
The octave-forge admins refuse to release packages with functions that might
cause segfaults, no matter how rarely these occur and no matter if it could be
an upstream bug in their system or not.
I've had a long discussion about this but just gave up in the end; see [*] in
my submission below.

There is a newer xercesImpl.jar + xmlapis.jar out but (1) I haven't had time
to test that and (2) as I couldn't reproduce the segfault in the first place
there's little incentive for me to test it anyway. 
Neither have I been able to motivate the people experiencing the segfault to
try these newer xerces libs; reasons may be that they rather stick to their
distro-supplied versions and perhaps they aren't that much interested in Java
anyway.

If you really need xmlread/xmlwrite you can simply copy them over from earlier
io package releases. Hopefully they work fine for you.

And if you have the energy for it I'd suggest to try to fix the bug/segfault
or motivate other people to do it. I'd be happy to re-include the XML
functions in te io package but I won't spend more time on it.
:-)


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