Re: libxml bundling

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Per Lundberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:34, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > I see the seconding and thirding and fourthing of this message, but I still > > fail to understand why people consider the nuance of increasing the package > > size, something that's completely insignificant for almost all of our > > users, as a too high a price for keeping PHP on top of the recent > > technologies. Good XML handling is as basic as good forms handling in this > > day and age. > > +1 > > Bandwidth is really cheap these days, as well as hard drives. Who cares > about a couple of megs extra? :-) It's not all about storage; it is about maintability. libxml2 is released so frequently that it makes no sense to bundle it. Furthermore, libxml2 is basically installed on every system released in the last 1-2 years which renders the bundled lib redundant. That is different to expat which has never achieved the libxml2 market penetration level. - Sascha