Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2914 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 62702 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 21:03:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 21:03:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 32194 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 21:03:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO andi-home.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 21:03:10 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030628000637.031ed468@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: andi@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:07:01 +0200 To: Sterling Hughes ,internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1056731138.27597.110.camel@hasele> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) References: <1056731138.27597.110.camel@hasele> I definitely think we should give it a try! +1 for bundling. Andi At 12:25 PM 27/6/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: >Hi, > >So I figure I'll restart this discussion. There are a couple of reasons >I want to bundle libxml2: > >1) XML support is crucial. You may not like XML, but its the standard >for data exchange these days, and is incredibly important when >interoperating with external services. A PHP installation should simply >not exist without XML support, if it does, then imho we've done >something wrong. Applications that are distributed need to rely on >certain features in PHP, XML is one such feature. I think this much has >already been agreed upon. > >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). > >Its further helpful that users can rely on a certain implementation of >libxml2 distributed with a certain version of PHP. > >Anyhow, I thought I'd again bring this up before the beta. What do >people think? > >-Sterling > >-- >Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from >bad judgement. > - Fred Brooks > >-- >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php