Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:1325 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80552 invoked from network); 6 May 2003 22:25:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 23i.net) (216.127.66.132) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 6 May 2003 22:25:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 20198 invoked from network); 6 May 2003 22:25:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn) (81.98.223.212) by frodo.23i.net with SMTP; 6 May 2003 22:25:47 -0000 To: "Edin Kadribasic" , Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 23:25:40 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] libxml bundling From: james@imajes.info ("James Cox") References: > You have just added 3.5 MB of source into the PHP code tree despite your > assurances that libxml was only "slightly" bigger than expat which takes > up "only" 432 KB. > > This is IMHO completely unnecessary as libxml comes preinstalled as a > shared library on most modern Unix systems and because it adds bloat to > PHP distribution. > > In my opinion this bloat should be removed. No kidding. Sterling, what is wrong with linking to libxml that's more than likely going to be present, or if it's not found simply downloading and compiling libxml from a designated site? -- james