On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Rob Richards wrote:
>From: Andi Gutmans
>
>> > I can add that..but shouldn't we just go ahead and require
>> > 2.5.9 or greater instead of skipping ONE version??
>>
>> I think that's probably a good idea although it might piss some people off
>:)
>
>Since this is still a beta why not just skip that one version. 2.5.4 is
>included with some of the major distros so for now why not just limit the
>collateral damage this will cause by not requiring the latest version.
>Probably reduce the amount of questions of how to get and install libxml as
>well. By the time php 5 gets to a release, 2.5.9 and higher will most likely
>be more common and it could be revisited then if need be.
And do you really want to hunt after all ghost bugs that are really
caused by buggy libxml versions..? And like you said, PHP 5 is still
beta. Nobody should be using it for real anyway. :)
(and they can always do '--disable-xml' etc.)
So I say we just require libxml 2.5.10 or higher.
--Jani
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