Re: PHP 5 Beta 2 RC1
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:01:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5 Beta 2 RC1 | ||
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Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
One solution which was to bundle libxml with PHP got rejected and if my recollection is correct you agreed with that decision. IMHO that was a good decision, bundling a huge library (3.2+ megs as of 2.6.0) almost as big as PHP itself seems kind of strange. Reverting back to expat does not appear like a valid option as that prevents a common backend for all of the xml extensions. Although if someone can come up with a good solution, maybe fall back to expat if no operational libxml is found? Given xml's perceived popularity disabling XML is not an option, that and I believe (not 100% sure) it would cause problems for PEAR.I can verify this. PEAR is structured around the ability to parse a package.xml using expat-style parsing. Without xml, there is no PEAR. Regards, Greg