Re: Is xmllint no longer supported in (latest) Portable GIT 2.39.2 ?

From: Magnus Asplund <asplund.magnus@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 4, 2023, 01:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CACw=1eDSag1XE7X6OddtA=b+GPCaw=b3Ceo=sNw8UoA1UUJO1g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZAJ8vDUeLDH0CZAd@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your quick reply and directing me to Git for Windows. I'll check with them about my questions. Furthermore, I didn't know about these security issues of libxml2.. sounds reasonable enough to let that stuff be excluded.

Then I'm happy for the time being with your help. Regards, Magnus -- Kontaktinfo / Contact info: Magnus Asplund asplund.magnus@gmail.com

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On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:03 AM brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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> On 2023-03-03 at 18:10:19, Magnus Asplund wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hey,
>
> > I have a bash script created in RHL environment (Linux). The script
> > extracts data from a great number (+100000) of XML-files and generates
> > "row-col" data as output to a CSV file.
> >
> > Due to limitations in both technical knowledge and
> > access/authorization restrictions of other persons than myself, I
> > decided to give Portable GIT a try in Windows 10 environment to hand
> > over the script execution to those other ppl.
> >
> > The script works fine using 64-bit Git for Windows Portable version 2.38.1.
> > However support for 'xmllint' seems to be gone in version 2.39.2....
> > (this one: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.39.2.windows.1/PortableGit-2.39.2-64-bit.7z.exe)
> >
> > Any answers to this? Is xmllint not longer supported? Any alternative,
> > besides using to older version 2.38.1 ?
>
> The Git project doesn't ship any binaries, and it doesn't ship anything
> but Git, including xmllint.  However, Git for Windows may ship those
> things, and you'd probably want to go to their issue tracker
> (https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues) and talk to them about
> this.
>
> My guess is that this was necessary to build and it isn't any longer,
> and because libxml2 has a constant stream of security vulnerabilities,
> it's not something they want to keep shipping, but you'd really have to
> talk to the Git for Windows folks to be sure.
>
> If you need a more complete environment on Windows, you may want to try
> a Linux distro such as Debian under the Windows Subsystem for Linux,
> which will likely provide an up-to-date version of this tool.
> --
> brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
> Toronto, Ontario, CA