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I'm starting in on some development for an open source SIF Zone Information Server, TinyZIS.  The software had an 0.1 release a little under a month ago, most of which was writen by Tom Hoffman.

I spent a few hours early last week getting the dependencies installed.  Had a bit of an ordeal getting the lxml library up-and-running.  lxml depends on the libxml2 and libxslt libraries.  It seems that the fink package manager serves up versions of these libraries that are a bit stale.  The old versions worked fine until tinyZIS tried to load up the rather large SIF XML Schema document, at which point the process hung and memory usage climbed through the roof.  I decided to make some tea and see what would happen--by the time I was back from the kettle, python was spitting out malloc errors.

After a bit of debugging, I dropped the fink version of these packages and recompiled the latest versions myself.  After reinstalling lxml, the doctests ran swimmingly.  So, I'd recommend upgrading libxml2 and libxslt if you plan on using lxml.

Unfortunately, work went nuts by mid-week last week, and I haven't had a chance to grok the code yet.  Hopefully tonight or tomorrow will be able to dig in.