Re: libxml bundling

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 08:02 AM, George Schlossnagle wrote:

I agree with Zeev on this. While bundling lack aesthetic appeal (to me), I think it is the only way to address possibly rapidly changing libxml changes, as well as providing support for systems which do not have libxml installed already.

Isn't this the point of having your configure script, to ensure that a supported version of an external library is in existence? I don't buy the argument for supporting systems without a needed external library installed. There is plenty of documentation provided already on how to configure your PHP build, and more importantly a configure script to stop someone who hasn't read it from continuing. Is it really the job of PHP to play sysadmin for unix install ABC? Please note though that while being against bundling, this does not mean I am against the idea of fully supporting libxml.

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