Re: cvs: php4 / acinclude.m4 /ext/standard config.m4 reg.c

Okay. Good enough reasoning. I've reverted this and added warning to the configure help. (What 'tweaking' do you mean btw?) --Jani On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> The point is it _can_ be used wrong. > >Sure it can, so we document that fact. > >> Are you seriously saying that someone would use PHP >> on such embedded systems? Wouldn't it be better to >> use C anyway to get fast and small programs? > >Well, PHP, with a bit of tweaking, is far smaller than any other dynamic >scripting environment you can use for such small embedded web server >platforms. And yes, I am seriously saying that PHP is used on such >systems. > >> btw. What are the goals of PHP? To be the tool for everything? >> To be number 1 _web_ scripting language? > >Yup, *web*. And web servers come in all shapes and sizes. Small NAS >boxes that come with an administrative *web* interface, routers and >gateways that come with a *web* interface, perhaps your next digital >camera will be web managed. The trend to remove the tweakability of PHP >by removing things such as --without-pcre and --with-regex=system makes it >less and less likely that PHP will be chosen as the web tool for such >devices. > >-Rasmus > > > --