Re: the dl() issue

Shane wrote: > I think dl is an extremely important feature, and issues surrounding it > should be fixed. I'm absolutely, positively +1 on this. On the Mac OS X side of things, we are in the interesting situation of having PHP bundled with the operating system. I guess the same can be said about various Linux distributions, but there is a crucial difference: On the Mac, there is a tremendous pressure to leave the Apple-supplied software alone -- this will guarantee that it will remain upgradeable with Apple's Software Update mechanism, for example. Now Apple obviously can't bundle each and every PHP extension on the operating system CD-ROMs and preconfigured Macs. Currently, this is a lose-lose situation: The Apple-supplied PHP version doesn't have the features you need, and if you replace it with a homegrown PHP, you lose Apple's automatic updates and support. Having a good, working dl mechanism is the only reasonable way out of this Catch-22. Marko