Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2909 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34426 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 19:05:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO x-wing.brouda.com) (207.106.130.84) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 19:05:30 -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 h5RJ5GPF009279; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:05:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:05:16 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: dank@x-wing.brouda.com To: Sterling Hughes cc: Anil Madhavapeddy , "" In-Reply-To: <1056733687.10616.114.camel@hasele> Message-ID: <20030627150253.E5332-100000@x-wing.brouda.com> References: <1056731138.27597.110.camel@hasele> <20030627170436.GA11743@quick.recoil.org> <1056733687.10616.114.camel@hasele> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 From: dank@deadmime.org (Dan Kalowsky) On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: > Because, this will encourage people to do : > > --without-xml > > Instead of upgrading the system libxml2. > So you are forcing users and installations to use xml when they might not want to upgrade their libxml? This seems like a rather wrong way to go about this. But more importantly why don't you fix --with-xml to respect the --disable-all flag in configure first :) BTW I'm still -1 on bundling this code. > -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? > >---------------------------------------------------------------< 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