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

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
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 12:56:34
Message-ID: CABUevEwnygowZc+caz7YJ3FhwU6mnG5m4KsJnn_Lde3GjEiNFQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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?
>

Yes, that's what I'm referring to.

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