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Date: 27 Jun 2003 13:08:08 -0400
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2
From: sterling@bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)

Because, this will encourage people to do :

--without-xml

Instead of upgrading the system libxml2.

-Sterling

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:04, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:25:39PM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > 2) Libxml2 may be installed everywhere, but the version we rely upon
> > isn't available everywhere.  As witnessed by a message to the list by
> > michael, and a problem that someone else had over IRC.  Its fine to
> > allow people to use external versions of libxml2, however, we need a
> > recent version to operate.  For example, schema support is pretty
> > essential, as its becoming the new DTD format for XML (and is required
> > for proper SOAP support).
> 
> If you need a recent version, why not just require it as part of
> the configure tests as usual?
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