Re: libxml bundling

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I believe there's at least one company that effectively proved that the > opposite is true, there are probably many others. I don't see a problem in > having core technologies enabled by default. Purists can turn them off, > but there are a hell of a lot more average users than there are purists. I don't have the time right now to fully organize my thoughts on this and many of the other emails so you'll have to wait for my response (I know I know). When I state that things shouldn't be enabled by default, it is not towards making it harder for beginners. I would much rather see PHP using something like: ./configure --basic or ./configure --standard or some variation along that theme. Where whatever options are considered by the PHP development community as essential can be enabled. A ./configure should really just build a basic vanilla PHP in my mind. But this concept also goes against 6+ years of configure scripts, and I realize it's an uphill battle. I know it annoyed me to no end that MySQL was being built automatically when I first started using PHP. Or maybe the opposite of this should be allowed. A --disable-standard flag that will turn off all the options PHP developers believe are essential, but can then be overloaded with other options. I have no idea if it is technically feasible, but it's an eventual direction I would rather see. Finding what is enabled by default right now is too difficult, and we just keep plugging in more. >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "The record shows, I took the blows. http://www.deadmime.org/~dank And did it my way." dank@nospam-deadmime.org - "My Way", Frank Sinatra kalowsky@nospam-php.net