Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2916 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82892 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 23:42:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO netphobia.fi) (213.243.181.8) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 23:42:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (jani@localhost) by netphobia.fi (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5RNcqv25300; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:38:52 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: netphobia.fi: jani owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:38:52 +0300 (EEST) Sender: jani@netphobia.fi Reply-To: Jani Taskinen To: Sterling Hughes cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1056733687.10616.114.camel@hasele> Message-ID: 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: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen) Remember the issues with --with-mysql and some third party library linking with external libs..? --Jani On 27 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: >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?