Re: Enabling ext/zlib by default

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 08:54, Martin Jansen wrote: > 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 :-). Oh, I don't mind enabling zlib by default, maybe I got too caught up in explaining why this wouldn't solve the problem completely. ;-) +1 on enabling zlib by default, but the "disable" option should be --without-zlib. Anyway, if we want to save bandwidth, there should be both bz2 files available too. Does the bzip2 extension work in Windows? - Stig