libxml no longer needed

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 10:10 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 02:59:23PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 08:31 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:39:59AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:35 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > > It's been discovered (thanks Bill) that nothing in Core or Extras seems
> > > > > to need libxml.  We'd like to kill it from the tree, before the freeze
> > > > > for Test3 (Tuesday).  Speak now, or forever hold your pieces of
> > > > > packages.
> > > > 
> > > > It's a dependency of libglade, which is up for review for entry into
> > > > Extras (#198244). If it's going from Core I'll pick it up for Extras.
> > > 
> > >   What is using libglade then ? Anything relying on libxml version 1
> > > really must die now ! You should block libglade from Extras if it really
> > > is so far behind and has no app needing it.
> > 
> > I need libglade for pptpconfig, which is written in php-gtk; there is
> > work going on to port it to pygtk but that is stalled at the moment due
> > to lack of manpower. Lots of people find pptpconfig very useful for
> > configuring connections to Windows VPN servers.
> 
>   PHP uses libxml2 ... I don't see how you could get both versions
> of the library to cohabit in the same address space... smells very fishy
> to me

PHP-GTK requires PHP4, and pptpconfig requires the pcntl extension, so I
use an cut-down PHP4 with pcntl compiled in to support PHP-GTK, and
hence libxml2 isn't used.

Paul.