Markus: > Honestly I see this being a point beyond the task of PECL. > There are too many things which can get fucked up (I just see > a secenery where someone accidantly installs libxml2 through > PECL though he has it in the system but in a non-standard > path). Really, this does not belong to PECL by all means.
I think I didn't make myself clear enough. I didn't mean that PECL should install system libraries; it could instead download php-specific copies of them (like ext/gd/libgd) and use them for building the extension binary *only*. This is what I meant when I said that it would be just as hard as actually bundling the libraries. There has already been talk about including binary versions of the extensions in PECL. Presumably they would also contain the dependencies. My proposal is to make the *complete* source to them available for building on the client side, too. And, just for the record, I also oppose the idea of bundling something as huge as libxml2 into the main distribution. mk -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
