Re: bundling libxml2

On Fri, 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. > > 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). > > Its further helpful that users can rely on a certain implementation of > libxml2 distributed with a certain version of PHP. > > Anyhow, I thought I'd again bring this up before the beta. What do > people think? IMO, bundling libxml2 is a win for PHP. The only bad thing I can see is that it add's an extra ~1MG to the distribution. If the user wants to disable it, they'd just pass `--disable-xml' to configure, right? Elfyn --