Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:1608 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 75114 invoked from network); 16 May 2003 18:48:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 16 May 2003 18:48:19 -0000 Received: from jdi.jdimedia.nl (jdi.jdimedia.nl [212.204.192.51]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h4GImE7A001568; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:48:17 +0200 Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:48:14 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@jdi.jdimedia.nl To: Adam Dickmeiss cc: Sterling Hughes , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20030516182707.GA23334@indexdata.com> Message-ID: References: <20030516145005.GA32571@indexdata.com> <1053091807.5661.49.camel@hasele> <20030516182707.GA23334@indexdata.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundling libxml2 default? From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 16 May 2003, Adam Dickmeiss wrote: > I still have not seen any good reason to bundle. You state at > http://edwardbear.org/blog/ that libxml2 is bundled because expat > is bundled. Is that the best argument? > > You want people to switch to a more "modern" interface. The > new interface apparently breaks BC in multiple ways (that's > not your fault, the tools are just different). How about unbundling > expat and let people choose with configure what of those > libs they want to use. That solution will both make configure > for PHP easier to use _and_ save you from updating the bundled > software (for security updates, for example). I agree 100% (and if I'm not mistaken Sterling does too). Derick -- "my other box is your windows PC" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------