Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:03:40PM -0700, brad lafountain wrote: We are only talking about a few cvs commands here! We aren't talking about a huge effort. Any effort like this seems like duplicated effort to me. I don't see bad merges a problem here. It's not like I would be applying

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 07:16 PM 5/30/2002, Stig S. Bakken wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it down to under 500K. I still think 500kb is too much for

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 07:08 PM 5/30/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it down to under 500K. I still think 500kb is too much for something the most ppl already have installed. How do you figure

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 11:39 PM 5/30/2002, Dan Kalowsky wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: I personally will take responsiblity for bundling and upgrading it. As Rasmus stated earlier the reason the MySQL stuff is bundled is due to an assurance from the MySQL developers to keep it updated. I

RE: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Joseph Tate
list Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations At 11:39 PM 5/30/2002, Dan Kalowsky wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: I personally will take responsiblity for bundling and upgrading it. As Rasmus stated earlier the reason the MySQL stuff is bundled is due

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Dan Kalowsky
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: As Rasmus stated earlier the reason the MySQL stuff is bundled is due to an assurance from the MySQL developers to keep it updated. I don't think such an assurance existed to begin with, and whether it existed or not, it definitely wasn't the case in

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: As Rasmus stated earlier the reason the MySQL stuff is bundled is due to an assurance from the MySQL developers to keep it updated. I don't think such an assurance existed to begin with, and whether it existed or not, it definitely wasn't the

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-31 Thread Edin Kadribasic
Now on Windows or similar systems, where the average user is not used to system administration (witness the number of codered attacks still going around), we can pack all these dependant binary libraries into the installer. I'm not sure who builds the installer, but I know I could make one

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Alexander Wagner wrote: But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it won't matter how fast pased the

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Brad Lafountain wrote: But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it won't matter how fast

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Markus Fischer wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:58:31AM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote : Markus Fischer wrote: Build outta the box +1 for libxml2 bundle. This already discussed, isn't this? -1 It's very actively developed. What is

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Wed, 29 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: My point of view is domxml does require a newish version of libxml2. It't not going to hurt if we bundle that version with php. The configure script can even It does hurt... adding almost 2 MB to a distribution is simply insane IMO. Even people who

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote: I think that XML is a core technology and giving plugplay access to our users is important. Having bundled the MySQL library made it easier for people to get started with MySQL. Does that mean I think every library should be bundled with PHP? No, I

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Marko Karppinen
Dan: If we start down this path of bundling external projects, why don't we just bundle every external project PHP supports to make it the easiest? This is just an absurd notion to bundle an actively developed/maintained piece of code. The headaches it will introduce are not worth the minor

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:43:24AM +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote : But if libxml2 is a moving target and it's hard to stay in sync then it certainly sounds beneficial to take away this headache from our users. It seems we need to define 'hard to stay in sync'. The only hard

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:06:50AM +0300, Marko Karppinen wrote : Dan: If we start down this path of bundling external projects, why don't we just bundle every external project PHP supports to make it the easiest? This is just an absurd notion to bundle an actively

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Marko Karppinen
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, ok, missed that. But i hope you know this would only really work on Windows I guess. Even sharing binaries from one Linux distribution to another is not possible sometimes because of the different GLIBCs used. IMHO that cries for more work then there would be benefit

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kalowsky
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Marko Karppinen wrote: I think the solution would be to allow PECL to optionally fetch the libraries an extension depends on, quite like FreeBSD ports. While this idea would be excellent, any recent readings on the FreeBSD list you'll find the limitations of the ports

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kalowsky
Ignore that, Marko clarified his stance much better later. I really need to finish reading the overnight discussions before sending a reply. -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Lukas Schroeder
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:53:38AM -0700, brad lafountain wrote: It was mentioned before about bundling libxml2 with php with expat or instead of expat. Where do we stand with this? I emailed the developer asking permission to bundle it if we choose to do it (no response yet). for the

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The libxml project provides their own RPMs, so building them yourself is not really needed. Great! I'll check the spec file to see if I can use it out of box. -- Yasuo Ohgaki -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread brad lafountain
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote: I think that XML is a core technology and giving plugplay access to our users is important. Having bundled the MySQL library made it easier for people to get started with MySQL. Does that mean I think every library

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it down to under 500K. I still think 500kb is too much for something the most ppl already have installed. Derick

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Stig S. Bakken
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 02:04, Markus Fischer wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:12:27AM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote : Brad Lafountain wrote: Ok, But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
We bundle mysql for the very same reason Brad wants to bundle libxml2. Except with MySQL we have a commitment from the MySQL developers themselves to maintain it and keep it current. -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Stig S. Bakken
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 03:29, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: I think we can remove expat bundle now.) Think again :-) Expat has been bundled for ages, and IMHO we should not drop it unless we have another bundled xml library and ext/xml can use that instead. - Stig -- PHP Development Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Stig S. Bakken
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it down to under 500K. I still think 500kb is too much for something the most ppl already have installed. Having

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 08:46 30/05/2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote: I think that XML is a core technology and giving plugplay access to our users is important. Having bundled the MySQL library made it easier for people to get started with MySQL. Does that mean I

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread derick
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Except with MySQL we have a commitment from the MySQL developers themselves to maintain it and keep it current. Which they do very often, isn't it Zak ;) But there is a point, there is much more familiarity between MySQL and PHP then between the

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 19:03 30/05/2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Except with MySQL we have a commitment from the MySQL developers themselves to maintain it and keep it current. Which they do very often, isn't it Zak ;) But there is a point, there is much more

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Shane Caraveo
lot I'd be a +1. If it'd add 1 MB to our .tar.gz I would be against. THe normal source distribution is almost 2 MB... In that case I'm against :) Andi xpat is 300K. If Brad can get it down to 500K, and we replace xpat, then we realy are not growing all that much. I'm for doing

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread brad lafountain
--- Stig S. Bakken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it down to under 500K. I still think 500kb is too much for

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Christian Stocker
Hi I still would like to see it bundled. I do understand that libxml2 is being developed regulary but since domxml does require a semi-new version of libxml2 that most people don't have. I don't know when 2.4.14 was released but the date on the file server is 2/8/2002. Thats pretty recent.

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Marcus Börger
At 19:29 30.05.2002, brad lafountain wrote: --- Stig S. Bakken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: The 2M size has alot of stuff that we wouldn't need. Im sure we can get it down to under

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Shane Caraveo
In regards to download size, I took a look at other languages: perl 6mb source python 6mb source activeperl 8.5mb binary activepython 7mb source, binaries are larger activetcl 8.5mb I don't think the increase of a half mb in php source size is that big a deal, esp. for something as important

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kalowsky
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread brad lafountain
--- Dan Kalowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Andi Gutmans
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kalowsky
Months from now I honistly can't say what i'll be doing. For all I know i could get hit by a car. I don't plan on ditching my contributions anytime soon. But I don't see my contributions a factor in deciding if we should bundle libxml. Exactly the unspoken point. While I'm not saying you

[PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread brad lafountain
Hello all, It was mentioned before about bundling libxml2 with php with expat or instead of expat. Where do we stand with this? I emailed the developer asking permission to bundle it if we choose to do it (no response yet). Also I remember reading on here before someone suggested putting

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Christian Stocker
On Wed, 29 May 2002, brad lafountain wrote: Hello all, It was mentioned before about bundling libxml2 with php with expat or instead of expat. Where do we stand with this? I emailed the developer asking permission to bundle it if we choose to do it (no response yet). öhm, libxml2 is a

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread brad lafountain
Ok, But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it won't matter how fast pased the development is, ext/domxml won't use it. We can obvisouly

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Alexander Wagner
brad lafountain wrote: Ok, But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it won't matter how fast pased the development is, ext/domxml

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Brad Lafountain wrote: Ok, But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it won't matter how fast pased the development is, ext/domxml

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Markus Fischer
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:12:27AM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote : Brad Lafountain wrote: Ok, But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on,

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Markus Fischer
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:58:31AM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote : Markus Fischer wrote: Build outta the box +1 for libxml2 bundle. This already discussed, isn't this? -1 It's very actively developed. What is the reason of shared libraries if we don't use it?! GD is a

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Markus Fischer wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:58:31AM +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote : Markus Fischer wrote: Build outta the box +1 for libxml2 bundle. This already discussed, isn't this? -1 It's very actively developed. What is the reason of shared libraries if we don't use it?!

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread brad lafountain
My point of view is domxml does require a newish version of libxml2. It't not going to hurt if we bundle that version with php. The configure script can even detect a version that is installed on the system. If its greater than the packaged one then it can use that one instead alsogive the user

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Andi Gutmans
I think that XML is a core technology and giving plugplay access to our users is important. Having bundled the MySQL library made it easier for people to get started with MySQL. Does that mean I think every library should be bundled with PHP? No, I don't. But if libxml2 is a moving target and