On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:
> FWIW, I've had good success using fink to install libxml2 and libxsl; > however, in order to get a version of libxml2 high enough (2.5.10) to > work with PHP, you need to build from the "unstable" tree.
Great, just what I want, yet another external dependency. I fought originally not to depend upon Fink for PHP, and don't really see this as a solution.
I'd like to ask that before we continue to roll out RC's and further Beta's that this issue gets solved. It's not only frustrating as a developer, it's also frustrating as an end user (to which my INBOX is a nice testament towards).
This issue is definitely not a reason to stop rolling out RC's nor betas.
Enabling the XML extensions by default is the right decision because this is an important technology which almost every PHP user will need.
I do think it's a good idea though to have a --disable switch that works and disables all of the XML extensions.
IMO, we shouldn't have --disable-simplexml and --disable-xml. We should just have the latter and make it disable/enable all the three XML extensions. There is no real reason not to enable them all. The memory consumption is minimal and once one of them is enabled libXML2 is linked.
I don't see any good coming out of reverting back to expat. I think one of the most important "features'" in PHP 5 will be the much better XML support and this is really something PHP users are looking for.
Andi
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