Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:1328 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78954 invoked from network); 7 May 2003 00:33:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO x-wing.brouda.com) (207.106.130.84) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 7 May 2003 00:33:39 -0000 Received: from x-wing.brouda.com (x-wing.brouda.com [207.106.130.84]) by x-wing.brouda.com (8.12.8/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h470Xb5j061937; Tue, 6 May 2003 20:33:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 20:33:37 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: dank@x-wing.brouda.com To: Edin Kadribasic cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030506203232.K61894-100000@x-wing.brouda.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] libxml bundling From: dank@deadmime.org (Dan Kalowsky) Consider this a me fourthed message. This still is one of my biggest developer annoyances... bundling of extra software. On Wed, 7 May 2003, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > Sterling, > > 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. > > Edin > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "I'll walk a thousand miles just http://www.deadmime.org/~dank to slip this skin." dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org - "Streets of Philadelphia", kalowsky@php.net Bruce Springsteen