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List:       php-internals
Subject:    Re: [PHP-DEV] Problem with CVS
From:       Zeev Suraski <zeev () zend ! com>
Date:       2003-08-31 12:17:06
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At 14:01 31/08/2003, Rob Richards wrote:
>From: Jani Taskinen
> >     And do you really want to hunt after all ghost bugs that are really
> >     caused by buggy libxml versions..? And like you said, PHP 5 is still
> >     beta. Nobody should be using it for real anyway. :)
> >
> >     (and they can always do '--disable-xml' etc.)
> >
> >     So I say we just require libxml 2.5.10 or higher.
>
>Going with 2.5.10 is fine with me, but this does bring up the issue I had
>raised before beta 1 was released. This has NOTHING to do with bundling
>arguments, so no one use this to start that thread again please. If any
>version is going to be allowed to be used by the end user, looks like
>2.5.10+, there needs to be one or more versions that are considered
>supported, meaning the extensions have been tested against those versions
>and those are what are primarily used to test bug reports against.
>
>We have clearly seen that libxml does break things in its versions, even
>though the API is considered stable (which was one of the arguments against
>this idea in the first place). The changes can affect any one if not all of
>the xml based extensions and as you mentioned: "And do you really want to
>hunt after all ghost bugs that are really caused by buggy libxml
>versions..?". This is exactly where we are right now.

I agree, except I think it has a lot to do with bundling.

For now, I say let's require 2.5.10+.

Zeev

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