Re: Stricter requirements for libxml

On Fri, 10 May 2024, Niels Dossche wrote: > Hi internals > > Libxml is used as the underlying library for many PHP extensions. > Interestingly, libxml can be built with supports for various features disabled. > E.g. you can build libxml without XPath, Schemas, HTML, ... support. > In that case, these features are unavailable in PHP. E.g. some classes may not be defined or > functions may emit a warning instead of performing an action. > > I'm thinking of proposing an RFC that puts stricter requirements on libxml at build time. > That would make such features a requirement during PHP's build process. > This will simplify maintenance and will also make sure that users can rely on these > functionalities to always be available. > > Please let me know what you think. That seems sensible. Did you find any Linux distribution that actively disables these features, or is this a "just in case" kind of change? cheers, Derick