Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts
Date: 2016-09-08 12:53:13
Message-ID: CAB7nPqShNSVUYKz5hGzCG4UWoJD5iVM9-htRSZ=AETBwV7ZNGg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> Pretty sure this goes back to *our* XML support requiring both. As in you
> couldn't turn on/off xslt independently, so the "xml requires xslt" comment
> is that *our* xml support required both.
>
> This may definitely not be true anymore, and that check has just not been
> updated.
>
> Also this was 10 years ago, so I'm of course not 100% sure, but I think it
> was something like that...

Was it for contrib/xml2? For example was it because this module could
not be compiled with just libxml2?
--
Michael

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