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@xxxxxxxxx -- Kontaktinfo / Contact info: Magnus Asplund +46 70 718 65 00 (cell / mobile) asplund.magnus@xxxxxxxxx On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:03 AM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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
