Re: bundling libxml2

On 27 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: >Hi, > >So I figure I'll restart this discussion. There are a couple of reasons >I want to bundle libxml2: > >1) XML support is crucial. You may not like XML, but its the standard >for data exchange these days, and is incredibly important when >interoperating with external services. A PHP installation should simply >not exist without XML support, if it does, then imho we've done >something wrong. Applications that are distributed need to rely on >certain features in PHP, XML is one such feature. I think this much has >already been agreed upon. I'm against bundling it, there's absolutely no reason to. >2) Libxml2 may be installed everywhere, but the version we rely upon >isn't available everywhere. As witnessed by a message to the list by >michael, and a problem that someone else had over IRC. Its fine to >allow people to use external versions of libxml2, however, we need a >recent version to operate. For example, schema support is pretty >essential, as its becoming the new DTD format for XML (and is required >for proper SOAP support). We can require certain version in configure. --Jani