Re: PHP 5 Beta 2 RC1

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Greg Beaver wrote: > 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. That's a bit misleading. Without XML the pear installer just runs slower since it uses a user-space xml parser. -Rasmus