[lxml-dev] lxml Mac OS X probs?
Hi all. I saw here http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/nudgenudge the following text at the bottom: """Note that the Deliverance middleware requires lxml to do the theming which is known to have problems on certain platforms, e.g. Mac OS X.""" Googling for such only found problems in 2005 and 2006, and I didn't see an obvious reference to these on the lxml main page or FAQ. Can anyone give me an idea of why that comment might have been made, and what the current issues are, if any? Pointing to a web page would be fine... Thanks Gary
Gary Poster wrote:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/nudgenudge
the following text at the bottom:
"""Note that the Deliverance middleware requires lxml to do the theming which is known to have problems on certain platforms, e.g. Mac OS X."""
I am not aware of any problems with lxml on any platform. And I would also like to have such a statement clarified. Stefan
On Apr 24, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Gary Poster wrote:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/nudgenudge
the following text at the bottom:
"""Note that the Deliverance middleware requires lxml to do the theming which is known to have problems on certain platforms, e.g. Mac OS X."""
I am not aware of any problems with lxml on any platform.
And I would also like to have such a statement clarified.
Thank you Stefan. I suppose this link would be the place to do that (http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/ contact_project_admins), but your reply is good enough for me ATM. Gary
Gary Poster wrote:
On Apr 24, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Gary Poster wrote:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/nudgenudge
the following text at the bottom:
"""Note that the Deliverance middleware requires lxml to do the theming which is known to have problems on certain platforms, e.g. Mac OS X.""" I am not aware of any problems with lxml on any platform.
And I would also like to have such a statement clarified.
Thank you Stefan. I suppose this link would be the place to do that (http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/ contact_project_admins), but your reply is good enough for me ATM.
Initially, lxml would segfault for me. NudgeNudge being a toy project, I didn't have the time to investigate further and it worked on Linux. I was sprinting with Ian Bicking on this project and when I got the OSX segfault, he told me that it was a common thing to occur on that platform. I assumed it was a known issue. Since a few weeks ago, I changed the setup of the application (Gary: from zope.app.twisted to paste.deploy served) which magically made the problem go away on OSX... -- http://worldcookery.com -- Professional Zope documentation and training
My guess is this refers to the fact that Deliverance is known to segfault on OS X out of the box. This segfault occurs when calling lxml. (I believe this can be reproduced by running the tests)
From what we've gathered, this appears to be mainly related to troublesome versions of libxml2 and libxslt that are installed on many OS X boxes.
These problems do not appear to happen on other platforms, or on OS X for those who have installed later versions of these libraries. - Luke On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:39 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Gary Poster wrote:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint/nudgenudge
the following text at the bottom:
"""Note that the Deliverance middleware requires lxml to do the theming which is known to have problems on certain platforms, e.g. Mac OS X."""
I am not aware of any problems with lxml on any platform.
And I would also like to have such a statement clarified.
Stefan
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