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

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #58004 (project octave):

As I wrote, I gave up trying to convince the octave-forge admin.
Yet I can follow his reasoning to some extent: he has a fairly standard distro
where he got that segfault, and reasons that the vast majority of the users
has one as well, and releasing an io package with functions that may provoke a
segfault even on standard installations isn't a Good Idea.

Maybe you can give it a try by starting a discussion on the help or
maintainers ML. You have my sympathy.
Be warned that Java (on which the XML functions are based) is a bit alien to
most if not all Octave core devs and I fear that because of that you might get
little support. To wit, there are several Java-related patches on the bug and
patch tracker that have been sitting there for a loooong time.

BTW you can download the XML I/O functions directly from the repo as well:
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/io/file/tip/inst/


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