Re: the dl() issue

I never said it's not possible, I always said that it's going to be inefficient and less stable in MT. Of course I have no plans to implement it, but I also don't think it should be implemented at all; It requires far reaching changes to the infrastructure which would destabilize the MT version of PHP, and make it less efficient. You can give it a try of course, I'm just warning you in advance :) I don't see why you call preloading from php.ini or registry or autoloading 'half solutions'. It works fine for IIS, Apache and plenty of other applications I came across. Of course Perl supports it, so what? It made a shift from a command line tool that was virtually based on loading

modules, it had to.    We don't.

Zeev At 02:08 16/03/2002, Stig S. Bakken wrote:

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 22:08, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 21:36 13/03/2002, Shane Caraveo wrote:

I thought we weren't wasting any more time with this? :)

Yeah, I'm getting realy tired of having to argue for something that should be a base part of the language.

Kodus on the tactics :) I understand Shane's point of view very well here. PHP _needs_ a way of loading modules at runtime, not some half-solution like preloading from php.ini or directories where everything is preloaded. I had given up on this one until Shane popped out of the woodwork. What I don't understand is your insisting on that dynamically loading extensions at runtime in PHP is not possible, when it is possible in for example Perl running as a MT server plugin. It just doesn't make sense. If you don't have enough interest in runtime loading to find time to implement it, that's fine, but please say so instead of fighting the whole idea. Both Shane and I have enough interst to make an effort. - Stig