ext/xml: libexpat support still useful?
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Sun, 08 Jan 2017 23:02:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | ext/xml: libexpat support still useful? | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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Hi!
Due to <https://bugs.php.net/71595> I've
noticed:
$ ./configure --help | grep expat | grep XML:
--with-libexpat-dir=DIR XML: libexpat install prefix (deprecated)
This deprecation note is apparently present as of PHP 5.0.0 at least.
So I wonder whether there's a good reason to still support libexpat,
especially as some behavior of the XML extension depends on the
underlying library. It seems to me we could reduce the maintaince
burden by removing libexpat support altogether.
Thoughts?
--
Christoph M. Becker