On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Given our history with bundled libraries (gd, expat, sqlite, etc...) > we always tend to lag (often quite a bit) behind the official stable > release even if we do sync the libraries relatively frequently the > release cycle of the libraries themselves is usually much more > frequent then that of PHP. Libxml2 in particular seems to have an > extremely active release cycle.
Libxml2 seems flush it's CVS about once a month with a new release whether there's anything earth shattering or not. Usually they contain mostly bug fixes and implementations of more obscure parts of XML specs. While it'd be nice to keep up with it, I don't think it'd be horrible if PHP is a sub point or two behind the latest release. (Although libxml2 does have extensive regression tests, so I rarely hear of bugs breaking in sub point releases.) > Another problem is that bundling of a library prevents an easy > upgrade of said library by simply recompiling it, instead entire PHP > must be rebuilt. I see this as an option for people who aren't interested in maintaining libxml2 as a library. (Or, really, libaries in general.) There are lots of libxml2 binaries, RPMs, etc. available from the site, so it's not like it's *that* difficult to install libxml2: http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html This is for people who can't be bothered or can't learn. -adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] author of o'reilly's php cookbook avoid the holiday rush, buy your copy today! -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
