Re: Could some kind soul review these patches please.

I agree. CPAN is a good idea poorly implemented. Debian's package management system, on the other hand, is extremely easy and versatile. It is something that can be done, but I question whether we have even near the number of extensions required to make it worthwhile. John On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > 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/ > > > -- John Donagher Application Engineer Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web 408-395-0989 720 University Ave. Los Gatos CA 95032 www.intacct.com -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org mQGiBDnCZ1oRBACFgkFCV6p3dWic1qm1FLhip5beIyzZSt+ccTDYQQdPZA/t5H+k PZ7ZFBIUrXz/oEqwQwlEKlg8JQqg7hgtcL+xrIJ0BInLeSJG4lvvB551g59Thr7/ OsdxNVxKci775+K+GkdAz4xcULMuB+QE7t665Ri46EAS8ALos5UG6DGmhwCguD0v 1cxwy/KlKr+oi4sWM9caueED/RmjiSD3vmBZQt6PMisVe1AmkEf6cJoemduCSJxu 0eMz/LIeu+CqfpuJH2N/dZ3hRj9xMSHF4l71wKqV99zhm58kDGwG1u3yVzULPDqz 0yL+8nunlkoOUyn3zOnh3Zmz4POFVMZQ5oian3QkLllUwly5JCi5tWULxZ2vOkb0 zzjuA/4jigNxYV4NAyCl+wAbnyzk9/Iz8EHv4/0Ex8ytlcMtvBJKa9HjJxlyIl74 yOILHk3+GSAdM0b3ZmbavpoCpebinOMBhqEVBwCI4VUIAqf86gx+2dKBGxfKPnU4 Xxvqs/BOl/EbeJjyd4uieYndGRaWg+kYXqZ7SxrlFN24fohnd7QgSm9obiBEb25h Z2hlciA8am9obkB3ZWJtZXRhLmNvbT6IVgQTEQIAFgUCOcJnWgQLCgQDAxUDAgMW AgECF4AACgkQIt6tVu6+jd3SHwCgjssFktMXf8NjE9JBR+sJ2gDIsW8An0CFNdFd dU+DJYC6ogYP9AsVfM27uQENBDnCZ2MQBAD8E0qe1gBKjtoRmyiyORtwhOz/2XZE mqiZN2NouAUWRRZd4dHggFAA1jUsp2MVIZZQyY9ajNVy3Oaxj5kYz8LR5GItxxcD jC8RFXKM40ZfTJeR7fH6eJa689w+le71Tt4ALyN4xcjSWuksr8795AhHFjonDi8D rgGIq6GtWvi/KwADBgQAmeBbcjPzhqR2M8TdvEyNfVTQSSp/RNoTjNNWpHui8V0p kiQ49tbsqeMjXGToGgMugfmrX77JidXyuVjgYjT9xUdaaA25qKAR75M9izDliT7Y h5L+QZTAw0/5X9go7XK3WI3LYfFrp4TP0veXgSWxDqccqsRzWKW7IoXsliTCbVqI RgQYEQIABgUCOcJnYwAKCRAi3q1W7r6N3YIcAKCkJMTPLu6tOPnXPl2s3xmnSawy BACeOx83WlBhVScYWo+BUzntJ6ks4T0= =OkJU -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----