Re: Could some kind soul review these patches please.

At 17:18 13/12/2000, Peter Bowen wrote:

2) We need to try to fix the dl() problem with threading. dl() is an important to the concept of PEAR. In Perl, CPAN would not work if we could not use the module at runtime, on a per script basis, and I think that the same is true for PEAR. I'm not sure if dl() is possible in a threaded environment, but I hope so.

We're a bit far away from a working dl() in multithreaded environments. Personally, I'm not particularly in favour of moving extensions out of PHP, unless they're *REALLY* rarely used. I think that one of the good things about PHP, and one thing I hated in Perl, is that everything is in it. CPAN is impressive, no doubt, but I hated to have to search a zillion packages in CPAN just to get a script to run. I think the question we should be asking ourselves, always, is what the gain is. If we can come up with good reasons, then we should stay with the way it is, because it works. I fail to see the advantage of moving extension source to PEAR. Zeev - Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/