Re: bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:03:40PM -0700, brad lafountain wrote: > We are only talking about a few cvs commands here! We aren't talking about a > huge effort. Any effort like this seems like duplicated effort to me. > I don't see bad merges a problem here. It's not like I would be applying > patches or getting the latest and greates from libxml's cvs. Peridocially > someone would just need to update the source files from the 'newest' release. If you're just tracking libxml's tree, why do it at all? I fail to see the benefit here. > But as I explained before besides bug fixes and speed increases you wouldn't > get much from keeping totally up to date with the bundled libxml. > > And again.. its not like we are forcing the version on the user nor making it > an inconvenionce for them if they already have libxml installed. IMHO, having two ways to accomplish the same thing seems like either duplicated effort or overcomplication. > I don't know how much developement other people do but use xml/xml > techiologies on a daily basis. I see this is the trend of many developers but I > obvisouly cant speak for them. Just because some people do XML development on a daily basis is no reason libxml should be bundled with every one of their favorite technologies. > The ability to build outta the box is also what many system admins what to > see, maybe not the hacker ones but the ones who "just get the job done". I also > know alot of managers that will pay for software just cuase it runs outta the > box. No needing to depend on other software is installed. That is a poor goal at best, and a disaster at worst. IMO code quality is increased with code modularity. Let libxml do its job and PHP do its own job. I still fail to see what benefit you perceive. There will always be companies willing to buy and sell software like PHP (my employer* sells products that include PHP). I think these companies provide great benefit to their customers. Although I haven't read this entire thread nor heard all sides of the argument, at this point I'm -0.9 to the whole idea. Unless there is a *very* good reason for including 3rd party libraries in PHP, I beleve that should be strongly avoided. -aaron * Email me privately if you don't know who I work for and would like to find out.