Re: bundling libxml2 / bundling locations
| From: | brad lafountain | Date: | Thu, 30 May 2002 15:34:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: bundling libxml2 / bundling locations | ||
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--- derick@php.net wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> > I think that XML is a core technology and giving plug&play access to our
> > users is important. Having bundled the MySQL library made it easier for
> > people to get started with MySQL. Does that mean I think every library
> > should be bundled with PHP? No, I don't.
> > But if libxml2 is a moving target and it's hard to stay in sync then it
> > certainly sounds beneficial to take away this headache from our users. It
> > also means that other XML based extensions could use it by default.
> > Of course it also depends how big it is. If we can strip it down a lot I'd
> > be a +1. If it'd add 1 MB to our .tar.gz I would be against.
>
> THe normal source distribution is almost 2 MB...
The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it
down to under 500K.
- Brad
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