Re: bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't > > have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle > > say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it > > won't matter how fast pased the development is, ext/domxml won't use > > it. We can obvisouly peridocially upgrade the version that is bundled > > and you can have an override if you want to use a different version > > that is installed on a system. As xml gets more and more popular i > > feel that domxml will be more and more popular. > > I'd make it an optional download, because there are always people like > me who have all the libraries already installed with their distro. > > People with non-deb distros or who are lacking skills with Linux but > want to do it anyway would definately benefit from this. I don't think: ./configure && make && make install && ldconfig is that hard to grasp for anybody... [...] Derick --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I help you? http://www.jdimedia.nl/derick/link.php?url=giftlist Frequent ranting: http://www.jdimedia.nl/derick/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - derick@php.net All your branches are belong to me! SRM: Script Running Machine - www.vl-srm.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------