Re: Enabling ext/zlib by default

On 21 May 2002 08:46:54 +0200, Stig S. Bakken wrote: >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: I could have sworn that I got an error message some days ago when using PEAR on a pretty recent PHP version without zlib, but I may be wrong.. >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. But it does not do any harm if we enable it by default, no? Additionally we would also save some bandwidth then. (Yes, I know that most PEAR packages are < 20 KB :-). - Martin