InterchangeKit needs your help

[Alastair Turner]

Hi All

InterchangeKit is a FINOS Labs project building a memory-safe XML toolkit for use in native binary applications. As part of figuring out what needs to be built, we have collected information about which functions from libxml2 are used in a range of open source packages. You can see that information in the project GitHub repo at https://github.com/finos-labs/InterchangeKit/tree/main/functions_used

There are some interesting data points in that information, like around two thirds of the packages in Ubuntu which depend on libxml2 using under 20 functions from it. Join the InterchangeKit channel in the FINOS Slack to see and discuss further analysis of usage as it gets done.

Where we need your help is figuring out what the usage patterns look like for in-house applications at financial institutions and regulators. The patterns of usage in the open source projects we extracted the data from are probably very different from in-house applications. and we'd like to deliver benefits for both, as early as possible. Please join the channel, have a look at the repo (which includes a sample script for extracting the data from Linux binaries), and tell us which bits of libxml2, expat and Xerces you're using.

Thanks

Alastair Turner Postgres and Community, Percona alastai...@percona.com +44 7770 478 112