Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts
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In response to Re: Useless dependency assumption libxml2 -> libxslt in MSVC scripts  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.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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