Re: PHP roadmap

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:40:45PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Well, the MySQL and XML libs are bundled with PHP now, and should cause > > little problems now, especially for DSO builds. GD is trickier though, > > maybe it's time to "assimilate" a version of GD with GIF support and all > > into PHP too? ;-) > > We'd be sticking our necks out for Unisys to chop away at if we did that. Maybe it's just me, but most PHP installations I know of don't use GD and I see no reason for it to be on by default. I would prefer MySQL and XML to be off by default too, if I want it I'll turn it on. It's harder to remember to turn it off when I don't need it. I too think it might be good to separate some extensions from the core and use PEAR. It's starting to get too big, they can be released at different intervals and bugs can be reported separately. Well, I suppose there was a reason PEAR was made (: Stig