Re: Enabling ext/zlib by default
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Tue, 21 May 2002 06:46:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Enabling ext/zlib by default | ||
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On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 08:13, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> I think we should make '--with-zlib' the default, and add
> '--disable-zlib', for the PHP 4.3.0 release, since the PEAR Installer
> relies on it.
It's not supposed to, I've added "nocompress" options everywhere needed,
so it should work just fine without zlib:
* If you do "pear install Foo" without zlib, it will actually download
http://pear.php.net/get/Foo?uncompress=1,
which makes the server send
the file with gzreadfile.
* The packages bundled with PHP are plain .tar files.
Even if you enable zlib by default, PHP does not bundle zlib, it would
not be available on every system, and the installer would have to
support uncompressed packages anyway.
IMHO it would be better to have the zlib extension installable with
"pear install zlib" :-)
- Stig