[Axl] [ANN] Axl Library 0.6.3 'Paradox' release is ready!

[Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis@aspl.es>]

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Advanced Software Production Line is proud to announce a new Axl
Library release.

Axl Library is a small and efficient XML toolkit, written in ANSI C,
with support for Python bindings and released under the LGPL. It
allows to produce efficient and clear code that handle XML data.

The library was produced to support XML requirements needed by
software developed by Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.

At this moment the library is being used by Vortex Library, Af-Arch,
Turbulence, Shaper, Fovap and Ju-Doc.

Resources
~~~~~~~~~

   Axl Homepage
   [ http://www.aspl.es/xml ]

   Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.
   [ http://www.aspl.es ]

This release in short
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  Many updates to PyAxl API to include new functions, fix memory
  allocation problems and documentation updates.

  General updates to check all allocation operations to fail
  gracefully.


Changes from previous release 0.6.2
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* [fix] Updates in configure.ac to better detect vasprintf function
  when available.

* [fix] Updated PyAxl node API to include replace, deattach and
  set_child_after

* [fix] Including PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding to be set to UTF-8.

* [fix] Making axl.Node.remove method to clean its internal reference
  to the node when it was requested to finish the C reference.

* [fix] Minor changes to produce debian packages for 0.6.2 release
  (lenny).

* [fix] Changing debian dependencies.

* [fix] Adding missing install files to build python axl debian
  packages.

* [fix] Fixed PyAxl node.replace, node.set_child and
  node.set_child_after to flag the internal node to be not removed in
  the case the holding document is defined, to avoid deallocating the
  internal node when it was already done by the document
  deallocation. Added regression test to reproduce the bug and check
  the fix (py_test_03).

* [fix] Committing debian files.

* [fix] Adding Makefile.win to allow compiling axl without using
  autotools.

* [fix] Updated package to allow compiling axl without requiring all
  autotools.

* [fix] Updated PyAxlNode internal references to hold a reference to
  the PyAxlDoc associated. Added regression test (py_test_04) to
  reproduce bug and check fix introduced.

* [fix] Updated axl.Node.first_child, get_next, get_previous and
  get_parent to avoid using Py_BuildValue but to directly return
  reference created (fixes memory leak problem).

* [fix] Making axl.Node.set_child to flag to false "finish on gc
  state" based on parent node instead of child node.

* [fix] Making axl.Doc.root to flag the axl.Node reference configured
  to be not deallocated on finish gc.

* [fix] Missing PyAxlNode commit. Fixed log comment at PyAxlNode
  deallocation.

* [fix] Updating module versions.

* [fix] Added missing regtest files.

* [fix] General updates to axl list module to check memory allocation
  operation before continue.

* [fix] Several updates to check alloc operations and to not continue
  on failure. Applied changes to axl doc, axl stack, axl hash, axl
  node and axl error. Still more work required.

About Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Advanced Software Production Line provides GNU/Linux support and
  consulting services to enable organization to introduce GNU/Linux
  into their processes, making other platforms to properly interact
  with it.

  Contact us, using English or Spanish, to get commercial support
  and/or XML based development services.

  You can reach us:

       http://www.aspl.es - info@aspl.es

  We hope Axl Library help you. Enjoy Axl Library!

--
Francis Brosnan Blázquez           - francis@aspl.es
Advanced Software Production Line  - http://www.aspl.es
10th sep 2010, Madrid (Spain)