Re: PHP 5 Beta 2 RC1

Hello Rasmus, To quote from PEAR/Common.php's infoFromString() method (used to parse package.xml, and the base of all installation methods)

        $xp = @xml_parser_create();
        if (!$xp) {
            return $this->raiseError('Unable to create XML parser');
        }

Regards, Greg Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

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