At 16:39 30/05/2002 -0400, Dan Kalowsky wrote: >On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: > > > I personally will take responsiblity for bundling and upgrading it. > >Brad, > >Nothing personal (so please don't take it that way), but in my opinion >this isn't a good enough assurance. Historically you will see people >come and people go with Open Source development, and while you have a lot >of free time to do this now, N months from now will you? > >As Rasmus stated earlier the reason the MySQL stuff is bundled is due to >an assurance from the MySQL developers to keep it updated. They know >their code inside and out. I'm not familiar with what you do or don't >know, or what development you're active in either. Unless you were/are an >active developer on the libxml code, the ability to introduce bugs >completely dependent to the PHP bundle is increased considerably due to >bad merges. > >I really see little to no advantage to this bundling yet. Only >increasingly more reasons not to do this.
Just to set the record straight, the MySQL guys haven't been very good at syncing the MySQL libraries in our tree. One fix I had to apply myself because they just didn't get to it. I don't really mind because there wasn't anything critical but that's what happened. I Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
