Re: libxml bundling

Guys, Unless somebody strongly objects, I suggest we drop the discussion about how horrible it would be to import libxml2 into our CVS. I believe it's well established that it's a Bad Thing to do, there's no point hashing it. I believe the question on the table is whether libxml2 is important enough from an end-user's point of view to be built into PHP. If we decide that the answer to that is positive, then there's a fairly easy way of doing that. My personal opinion is that XML today is as basic and important as ASCII, so bundling libxml makes good sense. I believe that bundling at the makedist level makes the most sense, because: (a) Synchronization is trivial (b) We get to choose what libxml we use, so our libxml-dependent code doesn't have to support the zillion different libxml's out there (the moving target argument, in my opinion, is a good reason for us to bundle a stable version of libxml rather than support all versions out there) We need to address the symbol clash issue, and that's about it. Zeev