CoolVLViewer/docs/libxml2

0. Pre-Checkin Checklist

Performed from top of repo, default branch, head:

[ ] Is tag 'current' at or near head of 'vendor'?

hg heads
hg tags

[ ] Expected differences between vendor and default? Very
little of the original source should be modified.

hg diff -rcurrent libxml2

[ ] Are the 'vendor' and 'default' branch source directories
'libxml2' and not 'libxml2-'?

[ ] Have you reverted/blocked checkin of files modified by
configure or nmake such as
libxml2/include/libxml/xmlversion.h?

[ ] On Linux and Mac, confirm Zlib and ICU detection working
as expected. That will typically mean these showing up
during the builds:

Checking zlib
checking zlib.h usability... yes
checking zlib.h presence... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for gzread in -lz... yes

...
Disabling ICU support

(We'll revisit ICU support in the future...)

[ ] Did the libraries pick up the correct version of zlib?
Xmllint? Run strings over them:

$ strings stage/lib/debug/lib* | grep 1\\.[0-9]\\.
1.2.8
1.2.8
$ strings stage/lib/release/lib* | grep 1\\.[0-9]\\.
1.2.8
1.2.8
$ strings stage/bin/xmllint | grep 1\\.[0-9]\\.
1.2.8
deflate 1.2.8 Copyright 1995-2013 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
inflate 1.2.8 Copyright 1995-2013 Mark Adler

[ ] Does the xmllint program (stage/bin/openssl) run as expected?
Are the library bindings (ldd/otool/depends.exe) as expected?


1. Introduction

Simple build of libxml2 library from xmlsoft.org.

With 2.9.1, repo structure follows standard conventions (see
section at end).


2. Modifications

Unit test 'test/errors/name2.xml' appears to be sensitive to
running environment. Supplied version doesn't work on my pdp
(pdp14) but modified version doesn't work on Squeeze build host.
Both detect an error, just differently. So, it is being disabled
by being renamed. Some later version may handle this more
consistently.

EBCDIC unit test fails on Windows and Mac due to source conversion
problems in platform libraries. Test has been disabled by 'hg mv'
command moving it into a 'test/disabled_tests' subdirectory.

API unit test in the debug build takes an enormous amount of time
to run on Windows. Be patient.

Windows makefile (win32/Makefile.msvc) is modified to work with
Linden zlib artifacts and is hardened against finding bash
commands that look like cmd.exe commands.

There's a second Windows build scheme based on project files but
it wasn't used for this. It may or may not be more effective.


3. Source Origin

2.9.1:
ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz


4. Package Contents

Common:
* include/libxml2/libxml/*.h

Windows (debug and release):
* lib/release/libxml2_a.lib
* lib/debug/libxml2_a.lib

Mac OS X (debug and release):
* lib/release/libxml2.a
* lib/debug/libxml2.a

Explicit -liconv required when linking with OS X libraries due to
Unicode support.

Linux (debug and release):
* lib/release/libxml2.a
* lib/debug/libxml2.a


5. Consumers/Dependents

Packages dependent on libxml2 which will need attention
(autobuild.xml) after changes. This is not authoritative, use
appropriate build tools to find all dependents.

* fontconfig (should we actually decide to use it)

* colladadom

* viewer



===================================================================

Third-Party Library Repo Structure


Introduction

We want to have a way to capture local modifications to a third-party
open-source project, such as libcurl, without needing write access to
their public repository. We want to be able to carry forward such
modifications to newer versions of the public project. All this
should be independent of the organizational decision as to whether
it's even desirable to try to submit our local modifications upstream.

Fortunately, the Subversion folks articulated a process years ago that
addresses this very requirement. They call it "Vendor Branches." The
same tactic, suitably adapted, works with Mercurial too.

The essence of the idea is that we capture and tag a particular
snapshot of the open-source project. We develop our local
modifications to that, and the repository tip incorporates them. But
when we want to update to a newer version of the public project, we
bring it into the repository in such a way that we can discover the
changes from the original snapshot and the new one -- and then have
Mercurial apply those deltas to the ''combined'' source.

The following material is adapted from
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html, the Red Bean
Subversion book, but recast for Mercurial. The Linden source for this
material is an internal wiki. There may be superceding documentation
on the public wiki when you read this. We recommend searching there
for updates to conventions below. And note that each particular
library may implement variations of this scheme.


General Vendor Branch Management Procedure

Managing vendor branches generally works like this. You create a
named branch ("vendor") to store the vendor source snapshots. Then
you import the third party code into that branch. Your modified
branch (named "default") is based on "vendor". You always make your
local changes to the default branch. With each new release of the
code you are tracking you bring it into the "vendor" branch and merge
the changes into "default", resolving whatever conflicts occur between
your local changes and the upstream changes.

Perhaps an example will help to clarify this algorithm. We'll use a
scenario where your development team is creating a calculator program
that links against a third-party complex number arithmetic library,
libcomplex. We'll construct a repository specifically for our
locally-modified version of that library. To begin, we must
initialize our repository and create at least one file in our
"default" branch.

$ hg init ourcomplex
$ cd ourcomplex
$ touch README.txt
$ hg commit README.txt

Now we can create the vendor branch and do the import of the first
vendor drop. We'll call our vendor branch "vendor", and each
successive code drop will be tagged "current".

$ hg branch vendor
$ tar -xjf ../libcomplex-1.0.tar.bz2
$ mv libcomplex-1.0 libcomplex
$ hg addremove
$ hg commit -m "1.0 source drop"
$ hg tag -r tip current
$ hg tag -r current 1.0

We now have the current version of the libcomplex source code in
branch "vendor", tagged "current" and in a non-version-specific source
code subdirectory ("libcomplex"). Next, we merge it into the default
branch. It is in the default branch that we will make our
customizations.

$ hg update default
$ hg merge vendor
$ hg commit -m "initial: 1.0"

We get to work customizing the libcomplex code. Before we know it,
our modified version of libcomplex is now completely integrated into
our calculator program.

A few weeks later, the developers of libcomplex release a new version
of their library, version 1.1, which contains some features and
functionality that we really want. We'd like to upgrade to this new
version, but without losing the customizations we made to the existing
version. What we essentially would like to do is to replace our
current baseline version of libcomplex 1.0 with a copy of libcomplex
1.1, and then have Mercurial re-apply the custom modifications we
previously made to that library to the new version. But we actually
approach the problem from the other direction, applying the changes
made to libcomplex between versions 1.0 and 1.1 to our modified copy
of it.

To perform this upgrade, we update our repository to our vendor
branch, and update the "current" tag with the new libcomplex 1.1
source code. We quite literally replace the existing files with the
new files, clearing out the whole tree and exploding the libcomplex
1.1 release tarball in its place. The goal here is to make the tip of
our vendor branch contain only the libcomplex 1.1 code, and to ensure
that all that code is under version control. Oh, and we want to do
this with as little version control history disturbance as possible.

$ hg update vendor
$ rm -rf *
$ tar -xjf ../libcomplex-1.1.tar.bz2
$ mv libcomplex-1.1 libcomplex
$ hg addremove -s 60
$ # Additional 'hg add' and 'hg rm' commands if needed
$ hg commit -m "1.1 source drop"

After unpacking the 1.1 tarball, hg status will show files with local
modifications as well as, perhaps, some unversioned or missing files.
If we did what we were supposed to do, the unversioned files are only
those new files introduced in the 1.1 release of libcomplex. The
missing files are files that were in 1.0 but not in 1.1. The 'hg
addremove' command deals with both, and more: the '-s 60' switch
directs Mercurial to compare added files to deleted files, recognizing
any file at least 60% similar as a move/rename.

For simple or stable libraries, the 'hg addremove' command should be
reliable. For more complicated libraries subject to refactoring or
large gaps of time between updates (e.g. libcurl), it can get a little
lost trying to match files in the old release with files in the new
release. Pay attention to the output of the command or better still,
do dry runs. Files erroneously moved can be excluded with the '-X'
option and then dealt with individually with 'hg add' and 'hg rm'
commands after 'hg addremove'. (The readme file in the curl library
should document a particularly challenging case.)

The 'addremove' process doesn't have to be perfect. Recreating the
evolution of the upstream source tree isn't universally practical.
But we'd like to capture movement of files in the vendor branch that
are modified in the default branch. If achieving that becomes too
tedious, then re-implementation of the default branch edit in a new
file is fine. Just note it here for the next developer.

Finally, once our current working copy contains only the libcomplex
1.1 code, we commit the changes we made to get it looking that way.

Our current vendor branch now contains the new vendor drop. We move
the 'current' tag to the new version (in the same way we previously
tagged the version 1.0 vendor drop), and then merge the differences
between the version 1.0 and version 1.1 into our default branch.

$ hg tag -f -r tip current
$ hg tag -r current 1.1
$ hg update default
$ hg merge vendor
# resolve all the conflicts between their changes and our changes
# if you will have conflicts in .hgtags, simply take *all* lines
...
$ hg commit -m "update with 1.1"

Any additional work needed to get the merged library working can
now be done on the default branch.


Revision Tags

We don't currently make use of Mercurial tags in the build and release
process for 3rd-party libraries. But we would like to establish a
convention to document update and release points. The tags we would
like to establish are:

* 'current' Points to a succession of vendor releases checked into
the 'vendor' branch. Will almost always be at or close to branch
head.

* '' Tag on the 'vendor' branch pointing to a verbatim
checkin of a 3rd-party's release. Example: '7.21.1' for
a particular version of libcurl we have used.

* Release-type tags on the default branch aren't as useful given how
Mercurial handles tags and how autobuild works.


Schematic of a Third-Party Repository

Below is the output of the 'hg glog' command showing a library project
going through an initial 1.0 release and an update from the vendor to
1.1. Significant revisions in the repository lifecycle are as
follows:

0 Creation of the repo with an initial file.
1 1.0 code drop on branch 'vendor'
4 Merge of 1.0 code onto branch 'default'
5 Modifications to library we wish to keep over time. Released.
6 1.1 code drop on branch 'vendor'
9 Merge of 1.1 code onto branch 'default'
10 Fixes to merge yielding production 1.1 library. Released.


@ changeset: 10:888229641f6e
| tag: tip
| user: Monty Brandenberg
| date: Wed Oct 30 13:35:51 2013 -0400
| summary: Work to get 1.1 merge working. Release.
|
o changeset: 9:925ccdf09f50
|\ parent: 5:83c5775c23dc
| | parent: 8:977001a08e48
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:35:20 2013 -0400
| | summary: update with 1.1
| |
| o changeset: 8:977001a08e48
| | branch: vendor
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:33:49 2013 -0400
| | summary: Added tag 1.1 for changeset 5f6cb89add91
| |
| o changeset: 7:59bce0f6d12f
| | branch: vendor
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:33:41 2013 -0400
| | summary: Added tag current for changeset 5f6cb89add91
| |
| o changeset: 6:5f6cb89add91
| | branch: vendor
| | tag: current
| | tag: 1.1
| | parent: 3:8525ad934ecd
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:33:29 2013 -0400
| | summary: 1.1 source drop
| |
o | changeset: 5:83c5775c23dc
| | tag: 1.0
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:32:31 2013 -0400
| | summary: Linden-specific changes to the library. Release
| |
o | changeset: 4:bccb736585f4
|\| parent: 0:400e4516c406
| | parent: 3:8525ad934ecd
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:31:40 2013 -0400
| | summary: initial: 1.0
| |
| o changeset: 3:8525ad934ecd
| | branch: vendor
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:30:21 2013 -0400
| | summary: Added tag 1.0 for changeset 8ac3828d03bb
| |
| o changeset: 2:7aa1a1cb62d9
| | branch: vendor
| | user: Monty Brandenberg
| | date: Wed Oct 30 13:30:14 2013 -0400
| | summary: Added tag current for changeset 8ac3828d03bb
| |
| o changeset: 1:8ac3828d03bb
|/ branch: vendor
| tag: 1.0
| user: Monty Brandenberg
| date: Wed Oct 30 13:30:09 2013 -0400
| summary: 1.0 source drop
|
o changeset: 0:400e4516c406
user: Monty Brandenberg
date: Wed Oct 30 13:29:16 2013 -0400
summary: Created repo with initial readme file