Re: [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml
Date: 2007-06-02 12:30:58
Message-ID: 46616302.1010003@dunslane.net
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
>>
>> The current CVS' configure is really confusing: it has "--with-xslt"
>> option, while there is no XSLT support in the core. At least let's
>> change the option's comment to smth like "build with XSLT support (now
>> it is used for contrib/xml2 only)"...
>>
>
> contrib is a misnomer at best. When 8.3 branches I intend to propose
> that we abandon it altogether, in line with some previous discussions.
>
> We can change the configure help text if people think it matters that
> much - which seems to me much more potentially useful than changing
> comments.
>
>

On further consideration I don't see the necessity for this. We don't
say this about lib-ossp-uuid although it too is only used for a contrib
module.

cheers

andrew

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