eprints_tech messages

From: Ben Wheeler <b.wheeler AT ulcc.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:45:42 +0000

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On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Joseph Yamada wrote:
> Our problem occurs when we enable GDome through ↵
perl_lib/Eprints/SystemSettings.pm (enable_gdome = >1).  On Apache startup, ↵
we are seeing a Segmentation fault.
> 
> We have followed the instructions for ↵
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Installing_GDOME_on_Debian, but this has not helped. ↵
And we are assuming the instructions were meant for another version of Eprints.
> 
> Can someone help explain to us what we stand to lose by not enabling ↵
Gdome?

If you don't want to use gdome, you should enable libxml instead. 
If neither of these are enabled it falls back to XML::DOM which makes
EPrints extremely slow and memory-leaky.

libxml works fine for us, excepting the fact that it seems the EPrints
developers use gdome so occasionally something doesn't quite work properly
or works differently on a libxml setup until they fix it ;)

gdome is reportedly a bit faster than libxml, but it's also completely
abandoned by the authors and has been for several years, so it doesn't 
seem like a great thing to depend your repository on....

Ben