Re: the dl() issue

At 21:08 11/03/2002 +0200, Marko Karppinen wrote:

Having a good, working dl mechanism is the only reasonable way out of this Catch-22.

Apple should be using php.ini for extensions and not require the user to call dl() wich is sucky. This is not about what Apple should be doing; indeed, Apple does nothing to stop you from using a php.ini file. The question is this: what will the *users* of Apple computers be doing? For them, digging into the guts of the system, installing PHP extensions there and modifying obscure, Apple-supplied configuration files is MUCH, MUCH more frightening than just downloading a php extension, dropping it into the Sites folder in their home directory, and calling dl("extension.bundle"); in their PHP scripts. The fact that we're bundled on OS X has the promise of making PHP available to a whole new group of users. Leveraging that will require special consideration from us. Mac users don't become UNIX users just by installing OS X, and we shouldn't expect them to.

I'm surprised that MAC OS X's installation/update program doesn't know how to edit text files :) Andi