[Dwai-developers] dwai-client 0.3.0

[Lucio C. <lu...@su...>]

Hello list,

I'm here to announce the availability of a new version of dwai-client.
New features in version 0.3.0:

1) XML parsing library has undergone a major rewrite
2) it is now implemented as a state machine
3) the state machine is documented in the doc/ directory (you need 
OpenOffice.org to read it)
4) it is way faster than previous one. I've run dwai-client 0.3.0 and 
dwai-client 0.2.0 against the same dwai file. The old version took 48 seconds 
to parse it, the new version took only 30 seconds, which is a 60% gain in 
speed, measured in parsed bytes per second.
5) A "broken pipe" bug during XML parsing has hopefully been fixed. The bug 
showed up in some situations with 0.2.0 and it wasn't reproducible. The old 
XML parsing code was a mess to debug. The new code is likely to have other 
bugs but not that one, because it doesn't make heavy use of pipes like the 
old one. 

I expect a longer delay before the next dwai release, because I consider the 
current packages quite stable and useable in order to show them on October 
28th, during the italian Linux Day. If you'd like to see the first public 
presentation of dwai, head Pinerolo (TO) on next Oct. 28! Details at 
http://pinerolo.linux.it .

You might have noticed that we now have four dwai files to try in the demo 
area of the dwai website. Have fun!

Cheers,
Lucio.