Re: [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml
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Msg-id 46616302.1010003@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] build/install xml2 when configured with libxml
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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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