Re: ext/xml: libexpat support still useful?
| From: | Joe Watkins | Date: | Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:10:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ext/xml: libexpat support still useful? | ||
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Morning Christoph,
It is not clear what has been deprecated:
> 21 June 2016, Expat 2.2.2 released
Can you dig about some more and find out what's going on exactly please ?
Cheers
Joe
[1] http://www.libexpat.org/
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
wrote:
> 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
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