[libxml-devel] libxsl

[Sean Chittenden]

> Are we then talking about:
>
> ext/xml
> ext/xsl
>
>> Really? Damn. I thought you had suggested we make one package out of
>> it, and I was coming around to that idea.


Hrm... I think I was advocating for a single repo, but not single  
module/package.

Regardless of anything I've said in the past, they should definitely  
be two different modules that get required independently.

To maintain the illusion of a single require, however, it would be  
very appropriate to have libxslt check and see if libxml is loaded,  
and if it isn't, have libxslt could require libxml automagically.   
Having developers requiring libxml and libxslt seems redundant, but  
since libxslt implicitly requires libxml, why not have libxslt manage  
that dependency behind the scenes?  Those that need only libxml can  
require only libxml.  I'd be shocked if libxslt became a self  
sufficient XML parser without dependencies on libxml (to the point  
that I'll call it an impossibility).  -sc

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