Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt

["Sean R. Bright" <elixer@erols.com>] > To continue a tangent... I don't like the idea of having the PEAR > fetching/installation mechanism written in PHP (already some base code in > PEAR to do this). It seems to me that it forces the user to download/build > PHP and then download and rebuild PHP with any extensions that don't come in > the base distribution. Instead it should be a binary that can be compiled > before PHP is built, can download and configure any extensions requested and > then build the resulting PHP binary. We can also build in a dependency > mechanism where for example, someone chooses to install a PEAR module (be it > PHP or C) and the required extensions would be downloaded as well. > > Just my $0.02 I see your point, but personally I code 5 times faster in PHP than in C, and I want to get this done now, not next year. :-) When we're past the prototyping phase and stuff stabilizes, a C rewrite may be a good idea, but I don't think it is now. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway