On 27 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>Hi,
>
>So I figure I'll restart this discussion. There are a couple of reasons
>I want to bundle libxml2:
>
>1) XML support is crucial. You may not like XML, but its the standard
>for data exchange these days, and is incredibly important when
>interoperating with external services. A PHP installation should simply
>not exist without XML support, if it does, then imho we've done
>something wrong. Applications that are distributed need to rely on
>certain features in PHP, XML is one such feature. I think this much has
>already been agreed upon.
I'm against bundling it, there's absolutely no reason to.
>2) Libxml2 may be installed everywhere, but the version we rely upon
>isn't available everywhere. As witnessed by a message to the list by
>michael, and a problem that someone else had over IRC. Its fine to
>allow people to use external versions of libxml2, however, we need a
>recent version to operate. For example, schema support is pretty
>essential, as its becoming the new DTD format for XML (and is required
>for proper SOAP support).
We can require certain version in configure.
--Jani
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