[ANN] fast_xs 0.7.2 Released

fast_xs version 0.7.2 has been released!

* <http://fast-xs.rubyforge.org/>

fast_xs provides C extensions for escaping text.

The original String#fast_xs method is based on the xchar code by Sam Ruby:

* http://intertwingly.net/stories/2005/09/28/xchar.rb
* http://intertwingly.net/blog/2005/09/28/XML-Cleansing

_why also packages an older version with Hpricot (patches submitted).
The version here should be compatible with the latest version of Hpricot
code.

Ruby on Rails will automatically use String#fast_xs from either Hpricot
or this gem version with the bundled Builder package.

String#fast_xs is an almost exact translation of Sam Ruby's original
implementation (String#to_xs), but it does escape "&quot;" (which is an
optional, but all parsers are able ot handle it.  XML::Builder as
packaged in Rails 2.0 will be automatically use String#fast_xs instead
of String#to_xs available.

Changes:

### 0.7.2 / 2009-07-31

* 1 bug fix:

  * build gem extension correctly on install
    - thanks to Jesse Storimer for noticing and reporting

* 1 packaging fix:

  * rake-compiler is only needed for cross compiles

Browse gitweb for full history:
  http://fast-xs.rubyforge.org/git?p=fast-xs.git

-- 
Eric Wong