Re: PHP roadmap

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Stig S. Bakken wrote: >PHP is a huge package, we have way over 100 PHP-specific configure >options! I can think of three actions that could improve this situation; >1: start rolling out binary distributions (RPMs, Debian packages, FreeBSD >packages, Solaris packages...) for every release, 2: stop distributing all >the extensions in the world with PHP, and make them available through PEAR >instead, 3: make a more userfriendly/simple interface to configure. 2. and 3. makes sense.. 1. would just cause more trouble and work. >| One major problem is that there are these extensions >| enabled by default: >| >| - GD >| - MySQL >| - XML >| >| Which, IMO, all should be enabled ONLY when wanted. > >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, The bundled mysql causes much trouble..especially when there are other modules in apache which use mysql. IMO bundled libs are bad thing (tm). And enabling something by default is a very bad thing (tm) =). --Jani