Re: Anyone against requiring libxml2 2.6.x for PHP5.1?
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:38:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Anyone against requiring libxml2 2.6.x for PHP5.1? | ||
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At 23:32 15/02/2005, Andi Gutmans wrote:
I still think we should reconsider bundling libxml2 and solve this issue. XML is a center piece of PHP 5 and will be more and more used by extensions as well as developers. I think the benefit far outweighs the downside of bundling. I know some disagree because of size but I don't see this as an issue. I think giving PHP users a better experience is very beneficial.Andi beat me to it, but I very much think in the same way. If we kept a .tar.gz in CVS of the 'blessed' libxml2 version, that would become a part of the release tarball during makedist, it would have solved this dependency issue once and for all, and ensure that a given version of PHP behaves in the same way (at least as far XML is concerned) everywhere. Zeev