Re: libxml bundling

At 11:19 PM 5/31/2002, Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 13:12 31/05/2002 -0700, brad lafountain wrote:

Ok, I think we are split in two about what to do here. Ill try and list the different ideas that have been proposed. 1) don't include at all pros: No need to worry about auto install or filesize. cons: Forces people to install themselves.

I just want to mention one of the more important reasons why I think it's a good idea to include it in the tree. It means that PHP itself and its extensions can rely on having the C API present and can add XML functionality in various places.

It doesn't mean that it has to be in the CVS tree, by the way - if we decide that checking out libxml (or untarring a certain version) is a standard part of getting a PHP source tree ready for development. From what I hear, putting libxml in our CVS is really a bad thing to do, because it's a very active project. Zeev