On 26.04.2012 15:50, Christian Stocker wrote: > dom has the version 20031129 which is greater than 5. Not sure if anyone > really checks against that, since not much changed there since obviously > 2003 ;)
Yup it's the only one I noticed but since it's fairly well established, usually you don't need to check if it's there (AFAIK). > But the problem with extensions like dom is the used libxml version > which actually causes problems, not the version of the extension itself. > There's a bug in libxml < 2.7.0 which can hit you hard for certain > namespaces. So getting just the version number won't help you here. > > But that's not something we have to take care of IMHO, one can get that > information with LIBXML_VERSION or LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION True, and maybe we should actually expose libxml and other bundled libs as packages too via Composer. Could be handy. Cheers -- Jordi Boggiano @seldaek - http://nelm.io/jordi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
