Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:1617 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61268 invoked from network); 16 May 2003 20:31:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cs181147.pp.htv.fi) (213.243.181.147) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 16 May 2003 20:31:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (jani@localhost) by cs181147.pp.htv.fi (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4GKVBt01573; Fri, 16 May 2003 23:31:11 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: cs181147.pp.htv.fi: jani owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 23:31:11 +0300 (EEST) Sender: jani@cs181147.pp.htv.fi Reply-To: Jani Taskinen To: Derick Rethans cc: Sterling Hughes , In-Reply-To: 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: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen) On Fri, 16 May 2003, Derick Rethans wrote: >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). At least he did agree in Amsterdam about it. :) Just unbundle everything and let people decided for themselves what they want to use.. --Jani