Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:97602 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96956 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2017 23:02:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jan 2017 23:02:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=cmbecker69@gmx.de; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=cmbecker69@gmx.de; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmx.de designates 212.227.17.20 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: cmbecker69@gmx.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.227.17.20 mout.gmx.net Received: from [212.227.17.20] ([212.227.17.20:49874] helo=mout.gmx.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 70/BE-31343-715C2785 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:02:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.2.109] ([217.82.227.120]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MFLmC-1cEJGh3Nf2-00EKpZ for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:02:43 +0100 To: PHP Internals List Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 00:02:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:xeoy9wZNgIq2wev5dp7xNR27GbWyQX7jWkFpN0pKs0ZKOWd6ztp HAZ9BXQV83IoleFbk75K/1r7nu6QQpsw7TJDS3+GaP6waTr0YDM2/Ume2i6rPOjQbgiZ8Bz ZzNdyrCT6af3jPlsW/CtrEz78YEbTkXRp0KfgYDFUyH7YbpcqoYSXd2wUa12VdAuKjqdZCC Xgmh2XMsTBbvUDtzTnE7g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:pmKiqKy+HAc=:nMi4L0eW/vZOsn786KXi/k OfN0sTQqZXtUIxkfepRHYq5MbT7MdTWNaP/gJ3Tg45ctD/4rX0NkrBiXBQE7shj1n1pzuS1kQ 46dAKc2HTZolf2tY4CboJR/i4E19A+q8dOuNZTr6cJ3Lo6alllYmO8GGiiRERoD1W2NqY6I+R xIIFrymQuo+DamKRjtTpZKf52dH/hU96JHl+gpvgY24xl5phIYj/3UMTZ0CzdnvLPJuJjqExR a//KvhcELdWM+iTKV63MQdIeR30JY4cYfLpj+bnDIyi4kpA4Piuv4nEmh2mrzF2o1lZ0/Nfww Obk/cXRcaFsJjKCs602lveEr11be13Xgjuq0LFnq6DNVmSfAIHPyBkhmnt7uDGuICMhg84biY uNwb31XU1AWH3iiJ665sX1Uj4pRjZcom2oxM7AAiZZiFYB3FTSAMZWmfUig+31JR5CtHbE1hj IgThZRD23xo0nJo8JOjY3ag2TIVOpMA8tqfCeJ90bvm6Y2cCIenKjforxR6bM7fHDtVbKjX46 zXdLANLikvQBSxNzNWq4CC1A6GfAdNc5ilAViWrMp7Diy5hxMaCi979HzhSU8A9YDIxONAIPU p7ctcj0GXSR9t8Y5JwLvJOnUAfPgRa5DG6tnWO4XoS02omvbw6FLixT7RrB4ftNClcqRShTOc b09bz3kU2v81ALdtiAxe6Sl2OWhaZ/FDPt41JE1ZxH7daHPM9KS3McPoPVseSGw4pntwMc0jx 1hCjdUaKB3aPFPsT/k64b9c+K1ldkAkHm35xuBrJfbuW3dHcOnfrebe8L43O7Zc3Qysws/lag RJP/3uG Subject: ext/xml: libexpat support still useful? From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker") Hi! Due to I've noticed: $ ./configure --help | grep expat | grep XML: --with-libexpat-dir=DIR XML: libexpat install prefix (deprecated) This deprecation note is apparently present as of PHP 5.0.0 at least. So I wonder whether there's a good reason to still support libexpat, especially as some behavior of the XML extension depends on the underlying library. It seems to me we could reduce the maintaince burden by removing libexpat support altogether. Thoughts? -- Christoph M. Becker